Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

Natural Sciences, Science & Medicine, Social Sciences, Educational Technology, Education

4.9 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marcus du Sautoy. DeepMind - https://deepmind.com DeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways Nature article on the topic - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1 Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project - https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900 Marcus du Sautoy - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk The Creativity Code - book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Dmxak2 Collaborator Geordie Williamson - https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/geordie/ Collaborator Marc Lackenby - http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/ Collaborator Andras Juhasz - https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andras.juhasz This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile - like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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0:00.0	I'm Brady Harron and this is the Numberphile podcast.
0:05.5	Now, the idea of mathematics being done by artificial intelligence
0:09.2	has just taken another step forward with a breakthrough paper in the journal Nature.
0:14.2	Researchers at Google's Deep Mind Project have collaborated with a handful of mathematicians
0:19.1	using algorithmic wizardry to find previously
0:22.3	unknown patterns and possibilities. The mathematicians then leapt on these discoveries, making them the
0:28.3	basis for new papers. Today I'm talking to Alex Davies from Deep Mind. Just so you know, you'll hear him
0:34.6	reference some of his mathematical collaborators throughout the interview, usually by their first names.
0:40.0	I've put more details about them in the podcast description.
0:43.3	Later, I'll also be talking with Oxford Professor Marcus de Sautoy, who also has lots of interesting things to say about this topic.
0:50.3	But first, here's Alex from Google.
1:06.7	When I think of this deep mind project, I think of some huge computer the size of a gymnasium with racks of flashing lights and things like that. But that's not what Deep Mind is, is it?
1:11.3	What is Deep Mind?
1:12.7	How do you describe Deep Mind to someone at the pub?
1:16.2	So, yeah, it's a great question.
1:18.9	So Deep Mind is a research organization.
1:21.9	So it's less like a big computer that sits somewhere in a warehouse.
1:26.2	But it's a research institute that just has a lot of
1:28.3	researchers who are all focused on a similar kind of thing, which is trying to develop general
1:34.1	intelligence and use it to advance science and benefit humanity and all this kind of stuff.
1:39.3	So deep mind is more like a group of people with an ethos rather than a machine or any kind of
1:46.7	piece of technology. Yeah, yeah, very much. So, yeah, DeepMind is a big group of people who are all
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