Hello! Thanks for pointing out that my CV is out of date. You're right that none of my work over the last two years is listed there, and I should probably fix that.
It feels a bit awkward to chime in, but it feels a bit important because I think there's a way in which the narrative is a little off (although I'm very grateful for everyone's kind comments):
Working at Google wasn't a trade off where I got financial support in exchange for not publishing. Rather, working at Google was amazing enabler, which supported me doing work I believed advanced important public interests for five years. That actually includes the blog posts being discussed here, which I wrote while an intern on Brain and received feedback from many researchers there.
To be concrete, some of the things I did while at Google included:
* Writing expository blog posts explaining important ideas in machine learning (eg. this blog post).
* A five year thread of research on neural network interpretability. How humans can understand how neural networks make decisions? (eg. DeepDream, Feature Vis, Lucid, Building Blocks)
* Cofoudning a scientific journal for machine learning that values exposition and allows interactive diagrams.
* Working on early TensorFlow and writing some of the initial tutorials on it.
* Articulating concrete safety concerns about modern machine learning systems, organizing a cross-instutional paper on it, and later representing Google on the Partnership on AI's Safety-Critical AI working group.
* Designing and teaching the introductory course for the Google Brain/AI Residency.
* Miscellaneous ML research, all published in open access venues.
That's basically the majority of what I did at Google. I always felt empowered to work on things that I thought were important for the world, and in many cases felt like had leverage I wouldn't have had individually. I think that was exceptionally generous of Google, and also speaks a lot to the environment Jeff created for those of us on Brain. (I realize Google is a large company, and other people's experience may be very different.)
I do think you're right that the number of short expository blog posts I wrote declined, especially after my first two years at Google. A big part of that is that I focused more on a small number of more ambitious projects (eg. Distill, Building Blocks). Another big part is that I started doing more non-individual work: teaching, mentoring, editing, debugging social issues.
To be clear, I actually left Google last fall. I now work at OpenAI where I lead the new Clarity team, which works neural network interpretability -- basically, can we take a trained neural network and turn it into something like code that a human can understand? Leading a team means that I do even less individual research and writing. Sometimes I miss being an individual contributor, but I think it's the right call. I get to build an environment where others can focus on a kind of research I think is really important for the world and teach and support them.