The Path Toward AGI, According to Google's DeepMind — With Colin Murdoch

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Colin Murdoch is the chief business officer at Google DeepMind. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a conversation about artificial general intelligence, discussing why we want to get there at all, and what the path looks like. We also discuss DeepMind’s merger with Google Brain, how pursuing the AI business changes Google, and how DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI is revolutionizing the healthcare space. Tune in for a dynamic conversation with one of the world's leading AI executives. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	A top executive at the heart of Google's deep mind efforts to advance artificial intelligence
0:06.2	joins us right after this.
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0:28.4	big idea. I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
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0:45.2	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech
0:50.0	world and beyond. We're joined by a very special guest today. Colin Murdoch is here. He's the chief business
0:55.3	officer at Google's deep mind. We're going to talk a little bit about theory. We're going to talk
0:59.9	about practice and how Google is trying to take the cutting edge and artificial intelligence
1:06.5	and productize it. Colin, welcome to the show. Alex, it's fantastic to be here.
1:12.2	I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
1:15.0	Why build artificial general intelligence?
1:17.1	I mean, this is something that is a stated goal of deep mind to build AI on par with
1:23.1	human intelligence or even something that surpasses it.
1:26.2	Why do it?
1:29.1	That's right. Well, I mean, just stepping back for a moment, I think it's really important to think about what artificial general
1:33.4	intelligence is or AI is, because you'll be familiar with a lot of AI systems today. You build an AI
1:39.6	system to solve a particular problem. And that works exceptionally well. We've seen huge kind of breakthroughs
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