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Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
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Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm).
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– Introduction
– Life-long trajectory through YouTube
– Discovering new ideas on YouTube
– Managing healthy conversation
– YouTube Algorithm
– Analyzing the content of video itself
– Clickbait thumbnails and titles
– Feeling like I’m helping the YouTube algorithm get smarter
– Personalization
– What does success look like for the algorithm?
– Effect of YouTube on society
– Creators
– Burnout
– YouTube algorithm: heuristics, machine learning, human behavior
– How to make a viral video?
– Veritasium: Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
– Making clips from long-form podcasts
– Moment-by-moment signal of viewer interest
– Why is video understanding such a difficult AI problem?
– Self-supervised learning on video
– What does YouTube look like 10, 20, 30 years from now?
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