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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Azeem’s Picks: Demis Hassabis on DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the headlines, but it’s not a new topic here on Exponential View. This week and next, Azeem Azhar shares his favorite conversations with AI pioneers. Their work and insights are more relevant than ever. DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis, joined Azeem in 2020 to explore his company's progression from gaming to accelerating scientific discovery. In 2023, DeepMind’s parent company Alphabet announced consolidation of its biggest research units, DeepMind and Google Brain, into a new division led by Demis.

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Hello, I'm Azimaza.

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Eight years ago, I started exponential view to explore the underlying forces driving

0:31.0

the development of exponential technologies.

0:34.0

I'm a child of the exponential age, born the year after Intel released the 2004, the

0:39.5

world's first single chip microprocessor.

0:42.4

I got my first computer in 1981, I'm holding it as I speak.

0:48.1

And as I moved into adulthood, the internet was growing exponentially, transforming from

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a tool of academia to the worldwide utility it is today.

0:57.8

I at least did not grow exponentially with it.

1:01.3

Now, back in 2015, when I started writing exponential view, I had noticed something

1:05.8

curious was going on.

1:07.4

You could feel the pace picking up, new technologies were clearly on some kind of accelerating trend.

1:14.9

One of those technologies is artificial intelligence.

1:17.8

So today I'm bringing back one of my all-time favourite discussions on AI, and that was

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with the brilliant Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind.

1:27.7

And he's recently taken on a new role within Google as the head of Google DeepMind, which

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combines both his old DeepMind organisation and the Google Brain organisation.

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Now in the conversation I had with Demis a couple of years ago, we talked about AI and

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