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Lex Fridman Podcast

#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 β€’ 13K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:29) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:40) - Learnable patterns in nature
(12:22) - Computation and P vs NP
(21:00) - Veo 3 and understanding reality
(25:24) - Video games
(37:26) - AlphaEvolve
(43:27) - AI research
(47:51) - Simulating a biological organism
(52:34) - Origin of life
(58:49) - Path to AGI
(1:09:35) - Scaling laws
(1:12:51) - Compute
(1:15:38) - Future of energy
(1:19:34) - Human nature
(1:24:28) - Google and the race to AGI
(1:42:27) - Competition and AI talent
(1:49:01) - Future of programming
(1:55:27) - John von Neumann
(2:04:41) - p(doom)
(2:09:24) - Humanity
(2:12:30) - Consciousness and quantum computation
(2:18:40) - David Foster Wallace
(2:25:54) - Education and research

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Demis Hussabas, his second time on the podcast.

0:06.1

He is the leader of Google Deep Mind and is now a Nobel Prize winner.

0:12.2

Demis is one of the most brilliant and fascinating minds in the world today,

0:17.3

working on understanding and building intelligence,

0:24.8

and exploring the big mysteries of our universe.

0:28.3

This was truly an honor and a pleasure for me.

0:31.7

And now a quick few second mention of his sponsor.

0:35.9

Check them out in the description or at Lexfreyman.com slash sponsors.

0:38.4

It's the best way to support this podcast.

0:42.3

We've got Hampton for connecting with founders and CEOs,

0:44.8

Finn for AI customer service,

0:47.4

Shopify for building e-commerce businesses,

0:52.3

element for daily electrolytes and AG1 for your health.

0:53.7

Choose wise and my friends.

0:55.4

And now on to the full ad reads.

0:56.6

I do try to make them interesting,

0:58.6

but if you must skip, friends,

1:00.4

please don't check out our sponsors.

1:02.2

I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too.

1:04.2

And also, to get in touch with me,

1:05.7

for whatever reason,

1:07.9

go to Lexfremend.com slash contact.

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