The Unsolved Problem - What Is the Problem You Most Like to See Solved?

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We ask all of our guests, what is the unsolved problem that you are most fasinated an seeing the results over seeing the mystery solved? For if you could fast four or ten years, what would the problem you most like to see solved be? The one i spend most of my time thinking about, and i still think i's the most fascinating outstanding problem. We have half a dozen prototype projects in the works on this problem. But so far, i would say we don't know yet how to, how to solve that problem.

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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