Is the a I Sensient or Conscious?

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Google's a i system has been able to understand jokes that it had never seen before. It is not conscious, but can represent concepts behind the joke and what makes it funny in a way that is intelligible. But these systems are not nowhere near consciousness or even semblance of sentience as we know it yet. We've recorded every aspect of our lives on this shed for 30 years now. Who knows what would be on there?

Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis is thinking through some of the most revolutionary — and in some cases controversial — uses of artificial intelligence. From the development of computer program AlphaGo, which beat out world champions in the board game Go, to making leaps in the research of how proteins fold, Demis is at the helm of the next generation of groundbreaking technology. In this episode, he gives a peek into some of the questions that his top-level projects are asking, talks about how gaming, creativity, and intelligence inform his approach to tech, and muses on where AI is headed next.

This is an episode of "The TED Interview," a podcast in the TED Audio Collective. It's hosted by author Steven Johnson. To check out the rest of their episodes, including a recent mini-series on the future of human intelligence, follow the show wherever you're listening to this.