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The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
“I love that area of biology. There’s people, there’s a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.”
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Demis Hassabis
CEO · Google DeepMind
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What Demis said.
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01 / evaluation
You can learn something kind of equally valuable from an experiment that doesn’t work.
“You can learn something kind of equally valuable from an experiment that doesn’t work.”
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- Demis Hassabis
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / evaluation
Proteins fold in milliseconds in our bodies, so somehow physics solves this problem that we’ve now also solved computationally. And I think the reason that’s possible is that in nature, natural systems have structure because they were subject to evolutionary processes that shape them.
“Proteins fold in milliseconds in our bodies, so somehow physics solves this problem that we’ve now also solved computationally. And I think the reason that’s possible is that in nature, natural systems have structure because they were subject to evolutionary processes that shape them.”
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- Demis Hassabis
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / evaluation
Of course people arguing about that now and mind’s quite a high bar and always has been of can we match the cognitive functions that the brain has? So we know our brains are pretty much general Turing machines approximate, and of course we created incredible modern civilization with our minds.
“Of course people arguing about that now and mind’s quite a high bar and always has been of can we match the cognitive functions that the brain has? So we know our brains are pretty much general Turing machines approximate, and of course we created incredible modern civilization with our minds.”
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- Demis Hassabis
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / evaluation
Along with relentless shipping of that progress is being very successful and it’s unbelievably competitive, the whole space, the whole AI space, with some of the greatest entrepreneurs and leaders and companies in the world, all competing now because everyone’s realized how important AI is.
“Along with relentless shipping of that progress is being very successful and it’s unbelievably competitive, the whole space, the whole AI space, with some of the greatest entrepreneurs and leaders and companies in the world, all competing now because everyone’s realized how important AI is.”
- Speaker
- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / evaluation
Because then it veers more from just engineering to true research, and research plus engineering, and that’s our sweet spot and I think that’s harder.
“Because then it veers more from just engineering to true research, and research plus engineering, and that’s our sweet spot and I think that’s harder.”
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- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / evaluation
Of course that’s why we pioneered, and what DeepMind is sort of famous for, using games as a proving ground. That’s partly because it’s efficient to research in that domain.
“Of course that’s why we pioneered, and what DeepMind is sort of famous for, using games as a proving ground. That’s partly because it’s efficient to research in that domain.”
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- Demis Hassabis
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
07 / evaluation
I think the history of human endeavors has been such that once you know something’s possible it’s easier to push hard in that direction, because you know it’s a question of effort, a question of when and not if.
“I think the history of human endeavors has been such that once you know something’s possible it’s easier to push hard in that direction, because you know it’s a question of effort, a question of when and not if.”
- Speaker
- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
08 / evaluation
The good news is that with the popularity of the recent chatbot systems, I think that has woken up many of these other parts of society to the fact that this is coming and what it will be like to interact with these systems.
“The good news is that with the popularity of the recent chatbot systems, I think that has woken up many of these other parts of society to the fact that this is coming and what it will be like to interact with these systems.”
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- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
09 / evaluation
I think we get some grounding through the RLHF feedback systems because obviously the human raters are by definition, grounded people.
“I think we get some grounding through the RLHF feedback systems because obviously the human raters are by definition, grounded people.”
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- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
10 / evaluation
I think we’re still in the nascent stage of this, of data curation and data analysis and actually analyzing the holes that you have in your data distribution.
“I think we’re still in the nascent stage of this, of data curation and data analysis and actually analyzing the holes that you have in your data distribution.”
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- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
11 / evaluation
I think we don’t know how long AGI is going to be. We always used to say, back even when we started DeepMind, that we don’t have to wait for AGI in order to bring incredible benefits to the world.
“I think we don’t know how long AGI is going to be. We always used to say, back even when we started DeepMind, that we don’t have to wait for AGI in order to bring incredible benefits to the world.”
- Speaker
- Demis Hassabis
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast