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Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research. Co-designer/implementor of things like @TensorFlow , MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, Gemini .. (he/him)

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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In April, '17, @jsomers of @NewYorker reached out & said he wanted to do a small profile of me & my longtime colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, watch us work for a few hours, maybe dinner, etc. It came out today. I think it captures our working style really well.

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I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks,…

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Google Dataset Search is now officially out of beta. "Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets & find links to where the data is." Nice work, Natasha Noy and everyone else involved!

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Discovering millions of datasets on the web

Dataset Search launches publicly with an index of 25 million datasets, helping scientists, journalists, students, data geeks to find data.

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Gemini 1.5 Pro - A highly capable multimodal model with a 10M token context length Today we are releasing the first demonstrations of the capabilities of the Gemini 1.5 series, with the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. One of the key differentiators of this model is its incredibly long…

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Introducing Gemma - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models for their class, built from the same research & technology used to create the Gemini models. Blog post: Tech report: This thread explores some of the…

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What an awesome animation..

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Healthcare workers are true heroes.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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I am very hopeful that we move the U.S. back to welcoming the best & brightest students from all around the world to our colleges and universities. For so many decades, this was an incredible strength of the U.S. I hope we get back to welcoming amazing students with open arms!

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Baris Kasikci

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A huge relief for international students; I am really happy for them as I know very well the stress that they have been living under #AcademicTwitter

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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A reminder that some people in our field are alienating our female colleagues by flirting in settings that are meant to be professional and by trying to turn what should be topic- & setting-appropriate conversations into dates. Please don't do this.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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And in a nod to efficiency, it's balanced, too!

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The binary tree actually exists!!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Last week, many of my colleagues got together to throw a surprise party to celebrate my 20th anniversary of working @Google . I am delighted & incredibly fortunate to have worked with so many amazing people over the years, on such a wide variety of projects. Thank you all!

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Congratulations to my colleague @geoffreyhinton , along w/ @ylecun , & Yoshua Bengio for receiving this year's @TheOfficialACM Turing Award (the highest honor in computer science) for their pioneering work in deep learning!

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Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (Published 2019)

For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Happy 25th Birthday Google! 🎉 I have gotten incredible enjoyement from being along for the ride for 24+ of these years. When I joined, we were a handful of people wedged into a small office area in downtown Palo Alto above what is now a T-Mobile store. 1/

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This is a small research community. To all my friends, former colleagues and those that I don't know at OpenAI, the last few days have been a rollercoaster for those of us watching from the outside: I can't imagine the ebb & flow of emotions you're all experiencing. ♥️

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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I'm very happy to see @Google & @Apple partnering on technology to help w/ COVID-19 contact tracing. Technology, coupled w/ strong consideration of privacy, will enable public health authorities to create apps w/ appropriate user opt-in.

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Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology

A joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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@MrsNewell22 @ChiefScientist At least he's hanging in there..

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We're starting to roll out API support for Gemini 1.5 Pro for developers. We're excited to see what you build with the 1M token context window! We'll be onboarding people to the API slowly at first, and then we'll ramp it up. In the meantime, developers can try out Gemini 1.5…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro - A highly capable multimodal model with a 10M token context length Today we are releasing the first demonstrations of the capabilities of the Gemini 1.5 series, with the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. One of the key differentiators of this model is its incredibly long…

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On behalf of the Google Brain team, I wrote a summary of some of the things we did in 2017. This is part 1 of 2. I'm very proud of the whole team and what we accomplished in 2017!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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I understand the concern over Timnit’s resignation from Google. She’s done a great deal to move the field forward with her research. I wanted to share the email I sent to Google Research and some thoughts on our research process.

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About Google's approach to research publication

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On behalf of the whole Google Research & @GoogleAI community, I was excited to put together a post describing some of the work that we collectively did in 2018. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks to everyone who helped make this work possible!

Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and Google AI Lead, on behalf of the entire Google Research Community 2018 was an exciting year for Google's res...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

4 years

This graph is pretty striking. I hadn't seen this data broken apart by Bay Area vs. rest of California for a while.

@jbruck

Bruck ⭐🚀🦄

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A tale of two Calis. Wear a mask.

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We're continuing to expand our @GoogleAI teams around the world. We’ll be opening our first research center in Africa in #Ghana later this year! If you're a machine learning researcher interested in working in Accra, Ghana, apply:

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Google AI in Ghana

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

4 years

AI is full of promise, with the potential to revolutionize so many different areas of modern society. In order to realize its true potential, our field needs to be welcoming to all people. As it stands today, it is definitely not. Our field has a problem with inclusiveness.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

4 years

Reminds me of my time in grad school.

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🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

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when they send out an email that they had an event and there’s food leftover

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At Google, we've been getting a better understanding of issues of bias & fairness in machine learning models as we've used ML throughout more of our products. We've also created training for Google engineers on these topics, and we've now made this material available externally.

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Google AI

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Introducing the MLCC Fairness in #MachineLearning module (), which looks at different types of human biases that can manifest in training data, and provides strategies to identify them and evaluate their effects. Learn more at:

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Excited to share the first of a series of @GoogleAI blog posts summarizing our research work from 2022. This covers language & multimodal models, computer vision, and generative models. We'll have ~7 posts covering other areas over next few weeks!

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AI can unlock joint human/computer creativity! Imagen is one direction we are pursuing: "A high contrast portrait of a very happy fuzzy panda dressed as a chef in a high end kitchen making dough. There is a painting of flowers on the wall behind him."

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Gemini is Latin for "twins". The Gemini effort came about because we had different teams working on language modeling, and we knew we wanted to start to work together. The twins are the folks in the legacy Brain team (many from the PaLM/PaLM-2 effort) and the legacy DeepMind…

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Bard (the product) is now Gemini. Gemini Advanced is powered by the Gemini Ultra 1.0 model, our most advanced multimodal model. Congrats to everyone who worked on this effort, including the Bard and Gemini teams! Lots more updates in the blog post!

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Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today

Bard is now known as Gemini, with a mobile app and an Advanced experience that gives you access to our most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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When I was finishing grad school, I was applying for both academic faculty positions and industrial research positions. Only got one academic interview (& offer), and not from a top- or even mid-tier place, so I went into industrial research. It's turned out okay..

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Sean Carroll

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Being denied tenure is a life-twisting thing, and there's no one best strategy for dealing with it. It's okay to recommit to your academic goals, or to try something completely different. Take the opportunity to have your mid-life crisis a little bit early.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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The denial of visas for people to attend scientific conferences inhibits the free flow of ideas that is essential for scientific progress. I wish visas weren't such a hindrance, especially for those from underrepresented countries in the field of ML. We need everyone's voice!

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@[email protected] on Mastodon

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This never ends. This year, so far, 15 out of 44 people to attend @black_in_ai workshop at @NeurIPSConf (which is still in Canada) have been denied visas. That's 33%. We had all this press last year, they were supposed to help us this year.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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. @geoffreyhinton was in Mountain View this week, so we decided to hold a Turing award celebration for him at @GoogleAI . Deanna Chen obtained secret info from Mohammad Norouzi about Geoff's favorite dessert, and ordered a version to feed 100. Behold our Turing-misu celebration!

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Currently, the OPT program enables talented graduate students to work in the US for a period after they graduate. Eliminating this program will cause graduate students, with newly minted PhDs, to be forced to leave the US, hurting US competitiveness.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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The launch of @TensorFlow ~5 years ago this week was a pretty exciting milestone for a lot of us. We all gathered in a conference room early one morning to watch the original blog post announcing it go live & people start downloading it:

TensorFlow - Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Google Fellow, and Rajat Monga, Technical Lead Deep Learning has had a huge impact on computer science, making it possi...

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Five years ago, we open sourced @TensorFlow , our machine learning framework that's now the most popular machine learning library in the world. 🌎 To celebrate, we’re sharing few interactive demos and tutorials you can try, no experience required →

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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As in past years, I've spent part of the holiday break summarizing much of the work we've done in @GoogleResearch over the last year. On behalf of @Google 's research community, I'm delighted to share this writeup (this year grouped into five themes).

Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the entire Google Research community Over the last several decades, I'v...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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On behalf of the entire Google Research & @GoogleAI communities, I'm excited to share an overview of some of our research in 2020. Thanks to everyone who helped make this work possible!

Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community When I joined Google ov...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

6 years

Some new work from the part of Google Brain that works on ml for healthcare: we have encouraging early signs that non-invasive retinal images contain subtle indicators of cardiovascular health that ml models can pick up on, that weren't previously even known to human doctors.

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Google AI

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Learn how #deeplearning makes it possible to accurately assess cardiovascular risk factors using retinal images. -->

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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This ICE action against students on F-1 visas is incredibly damaging in many ways. It hurts U.S. competitiveness, damages our world-class universities, and, if enacted, will disrupt the scholarly study of millions of the brightest students from around the world.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and I hope everyone is staying healthy! When in doubt, you can't go wrong with a kale salad!

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An update: @geoffreyhinton has been in contact with Canadian immigration officials. They told him that anyone who has been denied a visa to attend @NeurIPS can request their case to be reconsidered via this form: No guarantees, but please pass along!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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The denial of visas for people to attend scientific conferences inhibits the free flow of ideas that is essential for scientific progress. I wish visas weren't such a hindrance, especially for those from underrepresented countries in the field of ML. We need everyone's voice!

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I'm very excited to see the launch of Dataset Search, which can help researchers, scientists, and others around the world find open datasets! To get a feel for it, try it with things like … or … or …

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Google AI

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Announcing the launch of Dataset Search, a new way for researchers to find the datasets they need, wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page. Learn more at

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Some meetings can literally suck the oxygen right out of you.

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Chris Young 🇨🇦 @ Home

5 years

This is crazy. Study shoes three people in a conference room over 2 hours can result in a Co2 level that can impair cognitive functioning. Ie. If you’re making decisions at the end of the meeting, you’re mentally less qualified to do so.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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On behalf of our co-authors Tomáš Mikolov, @ilyasut and Kai Chen, @greg_corrado and I were delighted to accept the #NeurIPS2023 Test of Time Award for the "word2vec" paper (). Thanks to the @NeurIPSConf test of time committee for honoring us with this…

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Google AI

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Congratulations to Jeff Dean, Greg Corrado, & co-authors of the paper “Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality”, for winning the #NeurIPS2023 Test of Time Award! This prize recognizes a highly impactful paper published at NeurIPS 10 years ago.

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The multimodal and reasoning capabilities of Gemini are quite strong. The benchmark results, which I’ll discuss in a moment are nice, but I’m most excited by demonstrations of what it can do. Consider the image below. A teacher has drawn a physics problem of a skier going down…

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Bard, powered by the Gemini Pro-scale model, debuts at the #2 position on the independent lmsys leaderboard. 🔥 Give it a try at . Bard is much better & has many more capabilities since its debut in March, thanks to everyone on the Bard/Gemini teams!

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lmsys.org

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🔥Breaking News from Arena Google's Bard has just made a stunning leap, surpassing GPT-4 to the SECOND SPOT on the leaderboard! Big congrats to @Google for the remarkable achievement! The race is heating up like never before! Super excited to see what's next for Bard + Gemini…

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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School "buses" like this would be awesome! Health benefits, a bit of excess energy burned off before arriving at school, chance to all work together on getting to school, great for the environment, ... Probably way cheaper than a fuel-burning school bus, too.

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Brent Toderian

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These Dutch “bicycle buses” are transporting 50+ kids getting the kind of exercise that leads to better learning, who DON’T need to be driven & dropped off by parents adding lots of local car traffic. Nijmegen, NL video via @MartijnLi HT @urbanthoughts11

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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I think I'd never really watched a pole vault in such slow motion from this angle. It truly is an incredibly complex motion!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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What a time to be alive: collecting whale mucus via UAV! No doubt the first stage in a complex pipeline for data analysis or machine learning. Anyone else have equally exotic data collection techniques in work they're doing?

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A drone captures data from a surfacing Blue whale | carries a petri dish, collects mucus samples with DNA and hormones !! 🐳 🎯| Feb 2019

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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What a great photo capturing that exhilirating moment when your hard work all comes together for the first time. Congrats to Katie Bouman and the whole team behind this work!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Today, the part of Google Brain that had been working on healthcare problems open sourced a set of protocol buffer definitions for the FHIR standard, which makes it much easier to manipulate data in FHIR format. We've been using this for our recent work on ML for medical records.

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Hector Yee

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My team open sourced #FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) protocol buffers today. It allows #EHR data to be handled in a portable way

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Wonderful to see my good friend & colleague @geoffreyhinton today at the retirement party we organized for him. He retired in May, but this was the first chance to have a proper party for him in the Bay Area. To your amazing career & a happy retirement, @geoffreyhinton ! 🥂

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Andrew Ng

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Attending ⁦ @geoffreyhinton ⁩’s retirement celebration at Google with old friends. Thank you for everything you’ve done for AI! ⁦ @JeffDean ⁩ ⁦ @quocleix ⁩

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This video is a good reminder of why low latency, on-device ML is an important piece for creating really nice, natural-feeling user interfaces.

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James Cham

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I don't think that people appreciate how different the voice to text experience on a Pixel is from an iPhone. So here is a little head to head example. The Pixel is so responsive it feels like it is reading my mind!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Very happy to see my colleague Geoffrey Hinton has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada. A well-deserved honor! Congrats, Geoff!

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Google Canada

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🎉🇨🇦 Congratulations to the godfather of Deep Learning, AI pioneer and @Google Engineering Fellow Geoffrey Hinton on being named a Companion of the #OrderofCanada . @GoogleAI @UofT

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4 years

A croppy demonstration of bias.

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"A photo of the back of a wombat wearing a backpack and holding a walking stick. It is next to a waterfall and is staring at a distant mountain." #parti

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Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. 😀 "Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "

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YouTube runs on Bigtable | Google Cloud Blog

YouTube uses Bigtable to store user activity for personalization, record metrics, and power reporting dashboards and analytics to name a few use cases.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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One great thing about the Palo Alto area is that there's enough open space to go out and relax a bit, away from people. Ahhh...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Very excited to see the MLPerf 0.7 results released today, where Google TPUs set records in six of the eight benchmarks! We need bigger benchmarks, because we can now train the ResNet-50, BERT, Transformer, & SSD benchmarks each in under 30 seconds.

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Google wins MLPerf benchmark contest with fastest ML training supercomputer | Google Cloud Blog

Google set performance records in six out of the eight MLPerf benchmarks at the latest MLPerf benchmark contest

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Watching this animation is like a tour down memory lane of old processors.

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Lionel Page

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Fascinating: Moore’s Law predictions vs actual growth in transistor count. by @datagrapha

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Current U.S. policies that make it hard or impossible for some of the most talented people in the world to enter this country, or the proposed tax policies that will tax graduate students that make $28k per year as if they make $71k will definitely hurt the U.S.

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Christopher Schroeder

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A good friend, AI scientist, recently returned from China in awe: “they are toe to toe with us, but moving faster.” In Singapore I was told, “BTW the best thing to happen to China AI is your immigration policy...”

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東京オフィスでAI研究に取組む仲間を募集します！Happy to see our #GoogleAI efforts expanding w/ Google Brain now having a research presence in Tokyo. We’re hiring machine learning researchers there, if you’re interested in helping advance AI, apply here —>

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Today, Google Cloud is announcing the first of many AutoML products, AutoML Vision. It's the result of close collaboration between the Google Brain and Cloud AI teams. Automatically solve vision problems to high accuracy with no ML expertise required!

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Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business

To make AI accessible to every business, we’re introducing Cloud AutoML, which helps businesses with limited ML expertise start building their own high-quality custom models with advanced techniques...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Pretty cool! Graphical neural networks applied to soccer tactics. Off to play in my evening league, armed with new tactics. From the article:

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Aleksa Gordić 🍿🤖

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Incredibly cool work by my friend and compatriot @PetarV_93 ! TacticAI uses GNNs & Geometric deep learning to make tactical suggestions for the corner kicks and it turns out those suggestions (compared to real corners from previous games) are favored by football experts 90% of…

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Great article. "Countries that are prepared will see a fatality rate of ~0.5% (South Korea) to 0.9% (rest of China). Countries that are overwhelmed will have a fatality rate between ~3%-5%" Taking decisive action early is important: it can reduce the fatality rate 10X.

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What I did over my winter break! It gives me great pleasure to share this summary of some of our work in 2019, on behalf of all my colleagues at @GoogleAI & @GoogleHealth .

Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community The goal of Google Re...

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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Waymo coverage than before! 🎉

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Safer Roads for All

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The new Waymo operating area in California!

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Needle in a Haystack Tests Out to 10M Tokens First, let’s take a quick glance at a needle-in-a-haystack test across many different modalities to exercise Gemini 1.5 Pro’s ability to retrieve information from its very long context. In these tests, green is good, and red is not…

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Slides from my talk in yesterday's ML Systems workshop are now up at #NIPS2017

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This is ridiculous, not to mention embarrassing.

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STORY: G7 foreign ministers did not put out a joint statement on COVID-19 today because the U.S. demanded it be called the "Wuhan virus"

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"I feel like Salieri. I understand the greatness. I don't understand how it's done." Well said, Craig Silverstein! We all feel that way when looking at Sanjay Ghemawat's code. (Aside: if you haven't seen the movie "Amadeus", you should!)

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Google’s first employee, Craig Silverstein, on the code from @jeffdean & Sanjay Ghemawat that made Google what it is today: (credit: @NewYorker ) #tbt

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I strongly believe that the U.S. is at its best when it brings in talented scientists and engineers from all over the world to study, to be hired into companies to push forward our most advanced science and engineering efforts, and to start new U.S.-based companies. We should…

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If this were a science paper, you would expect a country that picks its science workforce at random as a “weak baseline” and a leading nation like the US to actively experiment towards state-of-the-art, or at least beat the baseline. Not providing a guaranteed path for…

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ML assisted coding is helping thousands of Google software engineers. "We see a 6% reduction in coding iteration time (time between builds and tests) [vs. control]" & "Currently, 3% of new code (measured in characters) is now generated from accepting ML completion suggestions."

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Check out a new hybrid approach that leverages both ML and rule-based semantic engines to build a Transformer-based semantic code completion model, which we show can improve developer efficiency. Read more ↓

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A good article about the tragic death of my dear friend & colleague, Luiz André Barroso. Luiz was incredible in so many ways. We collaborated on many things, made 20,000+ cappuccinos together & he was an amazing engineer, leader & friend. 😥

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Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso, Who Invented the Modern Data Center

Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rule book at Google, has died. His radical ideas for data centers laid the foundations for cloud computing.

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That sweet spot at 7 mph..

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Our @GoogleAI flood forecasting system is now live in all of India & Bangladesh, and we are working to expand to countries in South Asia and South America. And eventually, we want it to be available everywhere.

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Expanding our ML-based flood forecasting

Google has furthered their ML-based Flood Forecasting initiative to cover an area of over 360m people, and sent over 115m alerts in 2021.

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Lots of excitement about the Gemini announcement, but @GoogleCloud also announced availability of the newest TPU system today, TPU v5p. These systems are quite a bit higher performance and much cost effective than earlier generations. Compared to TPU v4, TPU v5p (see table…

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! I want to recognize all the female computer scientists & other researchers who are advancing our knowledge of the world. Thank you for everything you do! To any young girls out there, please consider STEM fields in your future careers!

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@kbhoyle_author Don't poupon the Dijon raincoat! It's great!

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We have a poster child for excellent parenting and research! Seriously, this is great to see, and I wish it was more common in academic conferences and professional settings.

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breandan

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Dr. @DavidDuvenaud doing double duty deriving differential equations and demonstrating how to be a good dad. Full paper:

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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When we released @TensorFlow as an open source project in Nov. 2015, we hoped external machine learning researchers & practicioners would find it as useful as we had internally at @GoogleAI . Very proud to see us hit 100M downloads! 2015 blog post:

TensorFlow - Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Google Fellow, and Rajat Monga, Technical Lead Deep Learning has had a huge impact on computer science, making it possi...

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TensorFlow has crossed 100 million total downloads. Over 10 million in the past month alone -- it's accelerating fast

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New @GoogleAI work: Input: "Two meerkats sitting next to each other on top of a mountain and looking at the beautiful landscape. There is a mountain, a river lake, and fields of yellow flowers. There are hot air balloons in the sky." #imagen Output:

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Introducing Imagen, a new text-to-image synthesis model that can generate high-fidelity, photorealistic images from a deep level of language understanding. Learn more and and check out some examples of #imagen at

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I've now been a Twitter user for two years. I'm still a bit mystified by it, but I find it an interesting mix of ml and cs research and researchers, tech news, politics, and intriguing people. So thanks for making this an interesting space. #MyTwitterAnniversary

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TPUv3! So hot it needs help with cooling: first liquid cooled devices in our data centers.. A TPUv3 pod is 8X as powerful as the TPUv2 pod announced at IO last year, offering more than 100 petaflops of ML compute, allowing us to tackle bigger problems & build better products.

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Today we're announcing our third generation of TPUs. Our latest liquid-cooled TPU Pod is more than 8X more powerful than last year's, delivering more than 100 petaflops of ML hardware acceleration. #io18

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One update about Duplex is that before this launches, we're going to have the system disclose that it is an automated agent.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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A nice blog post describing some of the techniques behind Google Duplex, a system that can carry on conversations with people over the phone to do things like make appointments, check store hours, or make a restaurant reservation. Listen to the clips!

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This is insanity. A q-tip-like swab test that is under $100 in many other countries.

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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@RobertsonDawn3 @acidflask Please bear with us during the pandemic.

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I'm excited that is now available in 40 languages & 230 countries! You can use images in your prompts, listen to responses, pin conversations, share responses w/friends, export code to more places & more..

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Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

Today we're expanding Bard to new languages and countries, and launching new features to help you get creative and boost your productivity.

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1/ @GoogleCloud TPUs are now in Beta for people that want access to high speed accelerators for training machine learning models. Details in blog post at:

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This behavior by police and national guard seems completely out of control and unjustified. Outrageous.

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Tanya Kerssen 🍉

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Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter

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We're excited to share Bard soon. It utilizes a powerful version of LaMDA and is made possible by our foundational work on Transformers, dialog models, responsible AI, model safety techniques, and more.

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1/ In 2021, we shared next-gen language + conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Coming soon: Bard, a new experimental conversational #GoogleAI service powered by LaMDA.

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I'd like to thank Covid-19 for helping achieve this milestone far sooner than I ever thought possible..

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Deep learning improving our sense of the world! A nose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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Google AI

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Our research team is using graph neural networks to predict the olfactory properties of molecules, expanding our understanding of smell & odor, with potential applications ranging from odorant synthesis to scent digitization. Learn more at

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Improving speech & text understanding in 1,000 languages will make computing more effective for billions of people, and making information more accessible. Machine learning, and learning across different languages, can advance the capabilities of these systems for all.

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Google AI

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Discover how Google Research is working to extend speech, translation, and language processing technologies to the 1,000 most spoken languages in the world in this lightning talk hosted by Uche Okonkwo and Sandy Ritchie at Research@ NYC →

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Very happy to work on this review of the use of computer vision in medicine with a great group of co-authors!

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Eric Topol

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Our new review of #deeplearning #AI for medicine @Nature_NPJ by @AndreEsteva @katherinechou @syeung10 @samottaghi @yun_liu @JeffDean @RichardSocher @nikhil_ai @thisismadani

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"We build a grid of Block-NeRFs from 2.8 million images to create the largest neural scene representation to date, capable of rendering an entire neighborhood of San Francisco."

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Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis abs: project page:

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This thread is important. Bringing the best and brightest students from around the world to further their studies in the U.S. has been a key to success in many technological endeavors and to lead in many scientific domains.

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1/OK, so let me explain why declining international student numbers - which are almost certainly due to Trump's restrictionist policies - are a bad thing for the United States.

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Hard to believe that 3 years ago, about 20 of us gathered early one morning in a conference room on the 4th floor of Bldg. 1900 for the open-source launch of TensorFlow, watching live Google Analytics stats of & Hacker News comments. We've come a long way!

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An end-to-end open source machine learning platform for everyone. Discover TensorFlow's flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources.

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TensorFlow

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Happy 3rd birthday TensorFlow! We've come a long way since the first release in 2015 & TensorFlow wouldn't be the framework it is today without you. As we work on #TensorFlow20 , look at all the features we've added over the years to make TensorFlow easier to use. #HappyBirthdayTF

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

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I believe this new dataset that we just released is going to be a pretty challenging and interesting one for NLP and question answering research. "where is blood pumped after it leaves the right ventricle?" "who did hawaii belong to before 1959 purchase?"

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Google AI

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Introducing Natural Questions, a new, large-scale corpus and challenge for training and evaluating open-domain question answering systems, and the first to replicate the end-to-end process in which people find answers to questions. Learn more at ↓

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This peek inside a modern tractor cab and its instrumentation was quite interesting. I knew much of the planting technology had gotten much more sophisticated in the last decade or so, but the tour inside the cab made it much more tangible.

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Ag of The World

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Here’s what I’m doing inside the cab!!

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As AI is applied to more and more problems through society, it's important to think carefully about the principles by which this is done. We've just shared Google's AI principles, which shows how we've been thinking about these issues. #GoogleAI

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AI at Google: our principles

We’re announcing seven principles to guide our work in AI.

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