Google co-founder and former Alphabet president Sergey Brin recently said he returned to Google “almost every day” because he had never seen anything as exciting as the progress being made in AI, and he didn’t want to miss out on it.
Brin revealed the anecdote in an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles this week. Although several publications reported last year that Brin was back at Google headquarters working on various AI projects, this is the first time Brin has spoken publicly about his return.
Brin called AI “a huge, rapidly changing field” that “has enormous value to humanity,” before explaining why he doesn’t think massive scaling of computing is needed to train more capable AI.
“I’ve read a few articles that extrapolate (the calculations) and I’m not sure I believe that,” he said. “It may be partly because the algorithmic improvements over the last few years have actually outpaced the increased computation that’s going into these models.”
