{"id":136878,"date":"2022-03-15T07:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/the-promise-of-ai-with-demis-hassabis-deepmind-the-podcast-season-2-episode-9"},"modified":"2022-03-15T07:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:02:55","slug":"the-promise-of-ai-with-demis-hassabis-deepmind-the-podcast-season-2-episode-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/the-promise-of-ai-with-demis-hassabis-deepmind-the-podcast-season-2-episode-9","title":{"rendered":"The promise of AI with Demis Hassabis \u2014 DeepMind: The Podcast (Season 2, Episode 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GdeY-MrXD74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hannah wraps up the series by meeting DeepMind co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis. In an extended interview, Demis describes why he believes AGI is possible, how we can get there, and the problems he hopes it will solve. Along the way, he highlights the important role of consciousness and why he\u2019s so optimistic that AI can help solve many of the world\u2019s major challenges. As a final note, Demis shares the story of a personal meeting with Stephen Hawking to discuss the future of AI and discloses Hawking\u2019s parting message.<\/p>\n<p>For questions or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeepMind\">@DeepMind<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:podcast@deepmind.com.\">podcast@deepmind.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interviewee: Deepmind co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis.<\/p>\n<p>Credits.<br \/> Presenter: Hannah Fry.<br \/> Series Producer: Dan Hardoon.<br \/> Production support: Jill Achineku.<br \/> Sounds design: Emma Barnaby.<br \/> Music composition: Eleni Shaw.<br \/> Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton.<br \/> Editor: David Prest.<br \/> Commissioned by DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who made this season possible!<\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/the-promise-of-ai-with-demis-hassabis-deepmind-the-podcast-season-2-episode-9\">Continue reading \u201cThe promise of AI with Demis Hassabis \u2014 DeepMind: The Podcast (Season 2, Episode 9)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah wraps up the series by meeting DeepMind co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis. In an extended interview, Demis describes why he believes AGI is possible, how we can get there, and the problems he hopes it will solve. Along the way, he highlights the important role of consciousness and why he\u2019s so optimistic that AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}