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DeepMind: The Podcast returns for Season 2
We believe artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant technologies of our age and we want to help people understand its potential and how it’s being created.
In 2019, we released DeepMind: The Podcast to explore these ideas, answer common questions and give an inside look at how AI research happens at a lab like DeepMind. Today, we’re proud to launch a new season, with stories of the latest breakthroughs, innovations, and challenges.
Listeners can find the new episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or their favourite podcast app by searching for “DeepMind: The Podcast”.
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Hosted by mathematician and broadcaster Professor Hannah Fry, the nine programmes explore the latest in AI, from helping advance science, like solving a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, to building computer systems that can cooperate with humans.
Through more than 30 original interviews, including with our co-founders Demis and Shane, listeners hear how AI can help people with degenerative diseases regain their voices, conserve the unique wildlife of the Serengeti in East Africa, predict whether it will rain in the next hour, and take football to the next level with Liverpool Football Club.
Hannah also learns how robotics researchers taught robots to walk at home during lockdown, explores recent advances in allowing computers to communicate with natural language, and examines some of the difficult ethical questions the whole field is grappling with to ensure the technology benefits society as a whole.
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Hannah and to our amazing contributors and creative producers, who all helped craft our initial idea into this new season of programmes. And we especially want to thank our listeners, who took the time to listen, share, and offer feedback on Season 1. Thank you!
We hope you enjoy listening to DeepMind: The Podcast, Season 2 as much as we loved making it for you.
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Listen now on your favourite podcast app by searching “DeepMind: The Podcast”.
We want this podcast to be a useful resource. If you have any feedback on season two, suggestions for topics you’d like us to explore, or questions about AI, please email podcast@deepmind.com or message @deepmind on Instagram or Twitter.
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Welcome to the DeepMind podcast
What’s AI? What can it be used for? Is it safe? And how do I get involved? These are the kinds of questions we often get asked at public events like science festivals, talks and workshops. We love...
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The Podcast: Episode 1: AI and neuroscience - The virtuous circle
What can the human brain teach us about AI? And what can AI teach us about our own intelligence? These questions underpin a lot of AI research.
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The Podcast: Episode 2: Go to Zero
In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to...
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The Podcast: Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraft II - a challenging video game that requires...
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The Podcast: Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers...
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The Podcast: Episode 5: Out of the lab
The ambition of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world.
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The Podcast: Episode 6: AI for everyone
While there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused.
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The Podcast: Episode 7: Towards the future
AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how.
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The Podcast: Episode 8: Demis Hassabis - The interview
In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
