Reading up on Jeff Dean
5 deep · digging since jan 08
- Press Release — G5 Labs Raises $14M Seed Round to Pioneer the Post-Developer Era
G5 Labs raised $14M seed funding to create a natural‑language abstraction layer that lets enterprises compile, merge, and govern AI‑generated code.
- Why I Left Google DeepMind — LessWrong
The author resigned from Google DeepMind after unsuccessful internal efforts to block Google's contracts with DHS immigration enforcement and an unrestricted Pentagon AI deal, citing broken ethics promises.
- Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic - The New York Times
Over 100 Google AI employees sent a letter to chief scientist Jeff Dean opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and certain autonomous weapons.
- The Jeff Dean Facts
This piece preserves a collection of humorous 'Jeff Dean Facts' memes that exaggerate his programming abilities, originally from a now-removed Quora post.
- Advancements In Self-Driving Cars - by Zvi Mowshowitz
Waymo expands to the entire SF Bay Area and plans 17 US cities by 2026, but faces regulatory barriers and speed-limit issues despite being vastly safer than human drivers.