Acquired · Oct 5Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI?
Its DistBelief system trained a nine-layer network on 16,000 cores and found cats in YouTube frames unsupervised. Astro Teller said its gains to search, ads and YouTube more than paid for all of Google X.
Tips
- Sebastian Thrun brought AI professors into Google part-time and it spawned Google Brain▶ 28:59Astro Teller later said Brain's gains to search, ads and YouTube more than paid for all other Google X bets.
- Google Brain trained a large neural network across thousands of CPUs and it paid for itself▶ 45:13The hosts estimate it led to hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for Google, Facebook and ByteDance over the next decade.
