It has been a few years since Google DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, and Professor Hannah Fry caught up. In that time, the world has caught on to artificial intelligence—in a big way. Listen as they discuss the recent explosion of interest in AI, what Demis means when he describes chatbots as ‘unreasonably effective’, and the unexpected emergence of capabilities like conceptual understanding and abstraction in recent generative models.

Demis and Hannah also explore the need for rigorous AI safety measures, the importance of responsible AI development, and what he hopes for as we move closer towards artificial general intelligence.

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Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
03:22 Explosion of AI
04:28 Unreasonably effective AI
08:40 Overhyped or under hyped AI
10:58 Gemini and Project Astra
15:40 Benchmarks
18:50 Engine room of Google
26:00 Shifting expectations of this technology
28:16 Open source
33:00 Regulation
38:00 The royal princes of the past
43:10 Avengers assemble
45:34 Peer into the mysteries of the universe
49:58 Conclusion

Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:

Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw

Camera Director and Video Editor: Tommy Bruce
Audio Engineer: Darren Carikas
Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke
Video Editor: Bilal Merhi
Video Production Design: James Barton
Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson
Commissioned by Google DeepMind