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In this episode we talk to Ali Eslami, who is a Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind studying artificial intelligence. He's currently also Director of Research Strategy for Google Gemini. Prior to this, he led a team at DeepMind working on generative models, self-supervised learning, multi-modal large language models. He also led the Quantum Chemistry and Materials team in Science.
Prior to DeepMind, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a Carnegie scholar. During that time he was also a visiting researcher at Oxford University in the visual geometry group.
We talk about:
- The emergence of the AI landscape
- Whether you need a body to understand the world
- Human perception slash Plato
- The difference between how humans and AI learn
- How AI models are built and trained
- Differences between Machine learning and Generative AI
- Marcus Aurelius and how amazing the human brain is
- Whether we are about to surrender our sovereignty to AI
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