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Cristos Goodrow - YouTube Algorithm
Sat, Jan 25, 2020 ·
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Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm).
Timestamps
- 3:26 - Life-long trajectory through YouTube
- 7:30 - Discovering new ideas on YouTube
- 13:33 - Managing healthy conversation
- 23:02 - YouTube Algorithm
- 38:00 - Analyzing the content of video itself
- 44:38 - Clickbait thumbnails and titles
- 47:50 - Feeling like I'm helping the YouTube algorithm get smarter
- 50:14 - Personalization
- 51:44 - What does success look like for the algorithm?
- 54:32 - Effect of YouTube on society
- 57:24 - Creators
- 59:33 - Burnout
- 1:03:27 - YouTube algorithm: heuristics, machine learning, human behavior
- 1:08:36 - How to make a viral video?
- 1:10:27 - Veritasium: Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
- 1:13:20 - Making clips from long-form podcasts
- 1:18:07 - Moment-by-moment signal of viewer interest
- 1:20:04 - Why is video understanding such a difficult AI problem?
- 1:21:54 - Self-supervised learning on video
- 1:25:44 - What does YouTube look like 10, 20, 30 years from now?
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