Jeff Dean

“I think really what cloud customers care about is, can they get their problem solved on any particular provider's cloud products?”

“You need to find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force.”

“In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.”

“AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.”

“I think there are sometimes issues with - no matter where you put a conference, there's always going to be constraints on that. For example, sometimes students studying in the U.S. have trouble leaving the U.S. to go to a conference. So if you hold it outside the U.S. in a particular place, that sometimes creates complications.”

“Supervised learning works so well when you have the right data set, but ultimately unsupervised learning is going to be a really important component in building really intelligent systems - if you look at how humans learn, it's almost entirely unsupervised.”

“Traditionally computers have not been that good at interacting with people in ways that people feel natural interacting with.”

“Vision I think is going to be an important input. Like, if you're using Google Glass, it's going to be able to look around and read all the text on signs and do background lookups on additional information and serve that. That will be pretty exciting.”

“If you only have 10 examples of something, it's going to be hard to make deep learning work. If you have 100,000 things you care about, records or whatever, that's the kind of scale where you should really start thinking about these kinds of techniques.”

“We're happy to work with military or other government agencies in ways that are consistent with our principles. So if we want to help improve the safety of Coast Guard personnel, that's the kind of thing we'd be happy to work on.”

“Machine learning is a new way of creating problem solving.”

“It's important to engage with governments around the world in how they're thinking about AI - to help inform them.”

“In Google data centers, our energy usage throughout the year for all our computing needs is 100 percent renewable.”

“Some things are easier to parrellelize than others. It's pretty easy to train up 100 models and pick the best one. If you want to train one big model but do it on hundreds of machines, that's a lot harder to parallelize.”

“I am concerned in general about carbon emissions and machine learning.”

“I think multimodal kinds of models are pretty interesting - like can you combine text with imagery or audio or video in interesting ways?”

“If you pass a lot of data through a teeny network, like 20 neurons, it'll do what it can, but it's not going to be very good.”

“Transportation, with self-driving vehicles, is going to be a big use of machine learning.”

“We have way more unsupervised data in the world than supervised data.”

“The healthcare space is a very complicated one for a variety of reasons: It's much more regulated than some other kinds of industries, for good reason.”