What's the Difference Between Interpolation and Extrapolation?

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Ai systems are quite good at the moment of doing interpolation and extrapolation, i would say. But what's missing is true invention - can you invent a game as gret as go or as great as chess? And if we solved that one, could then have systems that do what we would regard as true creativity. That's the whole reason i i've worked on ai my entire life. I think about, well, ok, we've done alfafold, amazing, big advance in life sciences, but what would it take for a system to come up with general relativity like einstein did?, he asks.

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.

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