Google DeepMind: The Podcast20 Des 2024

Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne

In our final episode for the year, we explore Project Astra, a research prototype exploring future capabilities of a universal AI assistant that can understand the world around you. Host Hannah Fry is joined by Greg Wayne, Director in Research at Google DeepMind. They discuss the inspiration behind the research prototype, its current strengths and limitations, as well as potential future use cases. Hannah even gets the chance to put Project Astra's multilingual skills to the test.

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Can AI help us better predict the weather?

Can artificial intelligence solve one of science’s most chaotic physics puzzles? In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, t...

9 Sep 44min

The mathematics of AI uncertainty

Now, if you ask an AI a question, it will usually give you an absolute answer with unwavering authority, even if that answer turns out to be wrong. In fact, today's AI seems to be missing a fundamenta...

26 Aug 44min

Understanding the inner thoughts of AI

Neel and his team are trying to do something phenomenally difficult: understand an intelligence that didn't come with a manual. Together, they explore the cutting-edge "neuroscience" of artificial int...

10 Jul 53min

When millions of AI agents meet

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 1:07 Defining AI agents 4:44 Agentic exploration in science and research 15:46 Delegation between agents 22:46 Agentic security and traps 29:31 Building an agentic econom...

23 Jun 42min

10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli

Seoul, March 2016. Two players sit hunched over a 19x19 grid covered in a sea of black and white stones. They are playing the ancient game of Go - a game of unimaginable complexity long thought imposs...

10 Mar 53min

The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)

Thanks for joining us this year. 🔔 Subscribe to stay updated on our return in 2026, and revisit our episode library to catch up on everything from driverless cars to drug discovery: https://www.youtu...

16 Des 202550min

The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

Further readingLevels of AGI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462The road to AGI (Google DeepMind Podcast, S2): https://youtu.be/Uy4OYU7PQYAThanks to everyone who made this possible, including but ...

11 Des 202547min

AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper

Learn more about AlphaFold: https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/Watch the story behind AlphaFold in The Thinking Game, now available for free: https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQThank you to everyone w...

28 Nov 202547min