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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer
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born 1975 or 1976
Correction
Shazeer was born in 1976, not “1975 or 1976.” Contemporary and retrospective sources identify 1976 specifically.
Full reasoning
This birth-year claim is too uncertain. I found multiple credible sources pointing specifically to 1976:
- A 2020 interview/profile published by DeepLearning.AI says Shazeer "was born in Philadelphia in 1976."
- A U.S. Government Publishing Office Congressional Record document about the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad says Shazeer "celebrated his 18th birthday" during that July 1994 event, which places his birth year in 1976, not 1975.
Because these sources support a definite 1976 birth year, the wording "born 1975 or 1976" is inaccurate.
2 sources
- Congressional Record, July 20, 1994
Noam Shazeer of Swampscott ... Shazeer, who celebrated his 18th birthday ...
- AI Transformed: A Conversation with Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer
Shazeer's grandparents fled the Nazi Holocaust to the former Soviet Union, and he was born in Philadelphia in 1976 to a multi-lingual math teacher turned engineer and a full-time mom.