Seeing the comments, I can't but imagine what kind of personality is needed to not be affected by that kind of reputation and recognition. Like everyone expects everything you do or say to be really smart. I guess its kind of like being a celebrity; but instead of looking or acting good you have to be smart all the time.<p>Edit: Also, how is Peter Norvig not Google's AI chief???
I'd love to see a long coding stream from Jeff or another senior Googler, <i>that</i> demoed all the tools they use and the infrastructure they have available to develop and test new code...
FYI Jeff Dean gave a lecture at YC on AI last summer:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcStlHGpjN8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcStlHGpjN8</a>
I read this and thought - that's going to be a big culture shift, Jeffrey Dean Morgan taking over Google's AI:
<a href="https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/walking-dead-jeffrey-dean-morgan-negan-season-7.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1" rel="nofollow">https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/walking-dead-...</a>
The list of mostly dudes seen as programmers worth worship makes me sad. Most great software is usually written implicitly or explicitly as a team.<p>Here’s a name for a start. Jessie Frazelle. Very influencial in the Kubernetes project. I’d love to see a list of “industry changing” female programmers. Mostly because it’s 2018 and we need to change the perceptions that “great software can only be written by men”
So many chiefs.<p>Jeff Dean is the AI Chief, and Fei Fei Li is the Chief Scientist of AI/ML<p>Not sure what the distinction is, but good for both of them.
off topic: how much do you think a guy like Jeff Dean is worth? 18-19 years at Google, pre-IPO and a super-programmer. Keeping in mind that Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Mil and Uber way more than that (technically Uber bought his company and maybe a hard drive :))<p>More than $500 Mil?
I'm curious what this means practically. What will he be doing all day? Is it still research or code writing, or at this level is he focused on managing people and projects at a high level? If the latter, what does that even mean?