How AlphaChip Revolutionized Chip Design at Google | Anna Goldie

Описание: Anna Goldie – Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and co-lead of AlphaChip, the groundbreaking project that used reinforcement learning for chip design (Nature cover publication). Her career bridges disciplines—starting in linguistics and computer science at MIT, earning her PhD at Stanford, and nearly a decade at Google Brain, where she co-founded the ML for Systems team with Azalia Mirhoseini.

Anna shares how her early curiosity in linguistics sparked a career at the intersection of AI and systems. From building dialogue systems at MIT, to working on Google’s moonshot projects like Amy and Small Talk, to pioneering deep reinforcement learning approaches for chip design, her path reflects both adaptability and vision.

References
Anna Goldie –   / adgoldie  
Jing Conan Wang (Host) –   / jingconan  
FounderCoHo –   / foundercoho  

Timestamps
00:00 – Highlights
01:10 – Introduction and Interview Focus
02:35 – Early Days & MIT Journey
08:16 – Google research team
11:00 – Joining Google Brain during the golden age
15:13 – Brilliant Minds behind Leadership
17:02 – Early Projects and Collaboration
19:50 – Moonshot Program
23:21 – Collaboration with Azalia on device placement
28:02 – Chip Design, Academic and Industry Research
32:16 – Meeting Jeff Dean
39:05 – Bridging software and hardware at Google Brain
43:16 – The foundations that led to AlphaChip
45:49 – Outro