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Demis Hassabis: The interview
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This Google DeepMind podcast episode features an interview with CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis. Host Hannah Fry explores Hassabis's background in chess, game design, and neuroscience. The discussion covers how his early interests influenced his path to AI, his motivations, his vision for artificial intelligence, and the challenges that keep him awake at night.
This podcast features an interview with Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind. He talks about how his past experiences, like playing chess and studying the brain, led him to create AI. It's interesting because it shows how different interests can lead to big ideas in technology.
This interview offers insight into the mind of a key AI leader, Demis Hassabis, and his journey to founding DeepMind. It connects his diverse background to his current vision for AI development. Listeners interested in the origins of major AI labs and the personal drive behind ambitious AI research will find this valuable. It provides context for Google DeepMind's ongoing work in fundamental AI research and its long-term goals.
- HostHannah Fry
- GuestDemis HassabisCEO and co-founder, DeepMind
- Guest: Demis Hassabis
- Show: Google DeepMind: The Podcast
- Host: Hannah Fry
- Length: 37 minutes
- Published: 2019-09-17
In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. She digs into his former life as a chess player, games designer and neuroscientist and explores how his love of chess helped him to get start-up funding, what drives him and his vision, and why AI keeps him up at night.
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Further reading:
- Wired: Inside DeepMind's epic mission to solve science's trickiest problem
- Quanta magazine: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
- Demis Hassabis: A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI. Talk at the 2010 Singularity Summit
- Demis Hassabis: The power of self-learning systems. Talk at MIT 2019
- Demis Hassabis: Talk on Creativity and AI
- Financial Times: The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence (2017)
- The Times: Interview with Demis Hassabis
- The Economist Babbage podcast: DeepMind Games
- Interview with Demis Hassabis from the book Game Changer, which also features an introduction from Demis
Interviewees: Deepmind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis
Credits:
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Editor: David Prest
Senior Producer: Louisa Field
Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon
Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown
Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)
Commissioned by DeepMind
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- Who is Demis Hassabis?
- Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, a leading artificial intelligence research lab.
- What topics does the interview cover?
- The interview covers Hassabis's background in chess, game design, and neuroscience, his motivations, his vision for AI, and the challenges of AI development.
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