Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, discusses the future and controversy of AI. Topics include AlphaGo beating world champions, gaming in tech, and the revolutionary impact of AlphaFold on protein research.
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question_answer ANECDOTE
Early Games Shaped His Path
Demis Hassabis started programming games as a teenager and worked at Bullfrog, helping create Theme Park and Black & White.
Those early games used AI for core gameplay and shaped his fascination with intelligence and simulation.
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Why Games Are Ideal Testbeds
DeepMind uses games and simulations as a practical training ground because they allow millions of runs without hardware constraints.
Simulations speed research by offering rich, controllable environments and benchmarkable rewards.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Pair Representation With Reward Learning
Combine deep learning for representation with reinforcement learning for decision-making to build agents from raw inputs.
Use the learned model to imagine futures and narrow the search for effective actions.
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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 of The TED Interview, which will be back for a new season next week, Demis 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. If you like this, listen to The TED Interview wherever you get your podcasts.
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