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Demis Hassabis: belief

23 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

“Partly because I think there’s enough data, and it’s been proven to get the systems to be pretty good.”

— Demis Hassabis

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Speaker
Demis Hassabis
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jul 2025
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So on the data side, are you concerned about running out of high quality data, especially high quality human data? I’m not very worried about that. Partly because I think there’s enough data, and it’s been proven to get the systems to be pretty good. And this goes back to simulations again. Do you have enough data to make simulations, so that you can create more synthetic data that are from the right distribution? Obviously that’s the key. So you need enough real-world data in order to be able to create those kinds of data generators, and I think that we’re at that step at the moment. Yeah, you’ve done a lot of incredible stuff on the side of science and biology, doing a lot with not so much data.…

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