The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Danny joins Katie in London for the Times Tech Summit, where the co-founder and boss of Google DeepMind Sir Demis Hassabis sets out his startling view that AI has the potential "to cure all diseases" and could 'have general human cognitive abilities within ten years." But fundamentally - do we really understand what AI is? Professor Neil Lawrence, the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge University, Faculty AI CEO, Marc Warner, and Naila Murray, Director of AI Research at Meta share their views. And Danny and Katie ponder whether AI mania could be more about money than the mind?

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0:00.0	Can I make a suggestion?
0:04.5	Can we just get into it and then we record the top at the end?
0:07.6	Because we'll be in a kind of better vibe, I think.
0:09.9	We'll be in a flow state, as they say.
0:12.2	Christ, do they?
0:13.1	Yeah, it's like a very techy thing.
0:15.5	It's like when you're so, like, ensconced in what you're doing you are in a flow state whether that's coding
0:21.1	you should write a silicon value lexicon
0:22.9	oh yeah there's uh yeah
0:25.0	double click on that
0:26.1	that's my favorite one
0:30.0	I hate that can I just double click on that for a second
0:32.7	or I'm gonna steal man this argument
0:35.1	you would oh you uh let me steal man this argument. You would. Oh, let me steal man this argument.
0:39.2	And then you have to, instead of a straw man,
0:41.5	you have to steal man the argument.
0:44.1	Meaning?
0:45.0	Meaning you have to kind of actually make the best argument
0:49.5	for the argument that you're making.
0:50.8	You're steel manning it as opposed to a straw man,
0:53.6	which is like, you know, B.S.
0:55.0	Something that you rip up, okay.
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