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Google DeepMind: The Podcast

What is generative AI? How do you create safe and capable models? Where is the industry headed in the next decade?

Join Professor Hannah Fry as she uncovers the extraordinary way AI is transforming our world.

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Hear from the brilliant people building the technology of the future. Learn how AI is helping people with degenerative diseases, conserving the unique wildlife of the Serengeti, and taking football to the next level.

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World-class scientists and thinkers—many speaking publicly for the first time—explain the foundations of AI. They join Hannah as she explores the challenges the field wrestles with, and dives into research that’s led to breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold.

I hope this series gives people a better understanding of artificial intelligence and a feeling for just how exhilarating an endeavour it is.

Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

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About Hannah Fry

Professor Hannah Fry is an award-winning science presenter, public speaker, bestselling author, and academic known for her joyful ability to bring maths to life for audiences of all interests and abilities.

Hannah is a regular host of BBC programmes and podcasts and is a Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL.

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Presenter: Hannah Fry
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Demis Hassabis - The interview

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Season 1, Episode 8

Demis Hassabis - The interview

In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.

She digs into his former life as a chess player, games designer and neuroscientist and explores how his love of chess helped him to get start-up funding, what drives him and his vision, and why AI keeps him up at night.

Interviewees: Deepmind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis

Find out more about the themes in this episode

  1. Wired: Inside DeepMind's epic mission to solve science's trickiest problem
  2. Quanta magazine: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
  3. Demis Hassabis: A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI. Talk at the 2010 Singularity Summit
  4. Demis Hassabis: The power of self-learning systems. Talk at MIT 2019
  5. Demis Hassabis: Talk on Creativity and AI
  6. Financial Times: The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence (2017)
  7. The Times: Interview with Demis Hassabis
  8. The Economist Babbage podcast: DeepMind Games
  9. Interview with Demis Hassabis from the book Game Changer, which also features an introduction written by Demis

If you know of other resources we should link to, please help other listeners by either replying to us on Twitter (#DMpodcast) or emailing us at podcast@deepmind.com. You can also use that address to send us questions or feedback on the series.

Credits

Presenter: Hannah Fry
Editor: David Prest
Senior Producer: Louisa Field
Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon
Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown
Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)