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