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Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind.

Demis HassabisguestDwarkesh Patelhost
Feb 28, 20241h 1mWatch on YouTube ↗

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EPISODE INFO

Released
February 28, 2024
Duration
1h 1m
Channel
Dwarkesh Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. We discuss:

  • Why scaling is an artform
  • Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs
  • Making sure rogue nations can't steal weights
  • The right way to align superhuman AIs and do an intelligence explosion

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Nature of intelligence 00:05:56 - RL atop LLMs 00:16:31 - Scaling and alignment 00:24:13 - Timelines and intelligence explosion 00:28:42 - Gemini training 00:35:30 - Governance of superhuman AIs 00:40:42 - Safety, open source, and security of weights 00:47:00 - Multimodal and further progress 00:54:18 - Inside Google DeepMind

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  • Demis Hassabis

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  • Dwarkesh Patel

    host
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Demis Hassabis and Dwarkesh Patel, Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold explores Demis Hassabis explains path to AGI, scaling, safety, and Gemini Demis Hassabis outlines how large multimodal models plus planning/search (AlphaZero-style RL) are his likely recipe for AGI within the next decade, with current LLMs seen as “unreasonably effective” but still incomplete.

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