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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

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Can AI Solve Nuclear Fusion?

I've been really impressed by Wikipedia for technical topics. If you know 100 pages or 1000 pages, I don't think you can visually truly comprehend what's what kind of intelligence that is. Yes, I think you can go really far. You can probably construct thought experiments based on that. Like simulate different ideas. It's not really invention. It's like just taking literally the knowledge and using it to construct a very basic simulation of the world. Yeah, one could imagine doing that systematically across millions of Wikipedia pages, plus PubMed, all these things. And fusion is one, one area I think AI can help with. So we talked about disease and biology as being one of the biggest places

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