Working at DeepMind with Aleksa Gordic

Aleksa Gordic is an ex-software/ML engineer at Microsoft & DeepMind with a broad background across the "whole stack" - maths, electronics, software engineering, algorithms, ML & deep learning (computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), geometric DL, reinforcement learning (RL)...), web, mobile, etc. He is a Top Linkedin Voice in AI for 2023. He has The AI Epiphany YouTube channel, and occasionally shares his projects on GitHub and blogs on Medium. # Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:45 Dropping Out, Self Learning & Chris Olah 03:20 From Android Developer to ML Engineer 06:25 LeetCode and CodeForces, Coding vs Soft Skills 17:30 Input and Output Mode of Learning 21:41 Yugoslavian Education, Cevap Cici, Hate for Schooling 25:46 Maths Teaching, Lack of Incentivizatiion and PISA Scores around the World 29:29 Inspirational Teachers 31:50 Microsoft HoloLens Summer Camp & Apple Vision 39:26 Microsoft Research, Google Ai, OpenAI & ResNet 41:50 Culture at Microsoft vs Google, Teams & Research Areas 50:00 Proprietary vs Open Source Models, Falcon 40B, MosaicML 01:01:02 Microsoft’s Gameplan, Profits vs User Acquisition 01:10:27 Alan Turing’s Paper, Definition of ‘Machines’ & ‘Think’ 01:14:05 Neuromoprhic Computing, Neuronal Pathways & Future of Hardware 01:16:18 LLM benchmark Saturation & Research Directions 01:20:37 Disinformation, Adobe Firefly and Social Fabric 01:23:33 Lawsuits against Stability AI & OpenAI, Transition from Non-profit to For-Profit 01:28:30 Politicization of AI, Supercomputing & Technological Real Politik 01:31:14 EU AI Regulation, European Innovation Stifling & Repurcussions 01:38:54 US restrictive Visa Regime, H1B Tech Visa problems & Tech Talent Moving out of the US 01:47:00 Life outside Work, Sports & Calisthenics