Demis Hassabis: belief

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…The inference. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We did a little video of the servers frying eggs and things. That’s right. And we are going to have to figure out how to do that. There’s a lot of interesting hardware innovations that we do as we have our own TPU line and we’re looking at inference-only things, inference-only chips and how we can make those more efficient. We’re also very interested in building AI systems and we have done the help with energy usage, so help data center energy like for the cooling systems be efficient, grid optimization, and then eventually things like helping with plasma-containment fusion reactors. We’ve done lots of work on that with Commonwealth Fusion, and also one could imagine reactor design. And then material design I think is one of the most exciting. New types of solar material, solar panel material room temperature superconductors has always been on my list of dream breakthroughs, and optimal batteries. And I think a solution to any one of those things would be absolutely revolutionary for climate and energy usage. And we’re probably close, and again in the next five years to having AI systems that can materially help with those problems. If you were to bet, sorry for the ridiculous question, but what is the main source of energy in 20, 30, 40 years. Do you think it’s going to be nuclear fusion?…

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