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The YouTube "chapters" are mixed up, e.g. the question about regulation comes 5 minutes after the regulation chapter ends. Ignore them.

8:40: Near-term AI is hyped too much (think current startups, VCs, exaggerated claims about what AI can do, crazy ideas that aren't ready) but AGI is under-hyped and under-appreciated.

16:45: "Gemini is a project that has only existed for a year . . . our trajectory is very good; when we talk next time we should hopefully be right at the forefront."

17:20–18:50: Current AI doesn't work as a digital assistant. The next era/generation is agents. DeepMind is well-positioned to work on agents: "combining AlphaGo with Gemini."

24:00: Staged deployment is nice: red-teaming then closed beta then public deployment.

28:37 Openness (at Google: e.g. publishing transformers, AlphaCode, AlphaFold) is almost always a universal good. But dual-use technology—including AGI—is an exception. With dual-use technology, you [...]

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First published:
August 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tRwddx3FqsG8A9qtq/demis-hassabis-google-deepmind-the-podcast

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Demis Hassabis — Google DeepMind: The Podcast” by Zach Stein-Perlman

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