Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 – Episode highlight
1:21 – Introduction
2:06 – Learnable patterns in nature
5:48 – Computation and P vs NP
14:26 – Veo 3 and understanding reality
18:50 – Video games
30:52 – AlphaEvolve
36:53 – AI research
41:17 – Simulating a biological organism
46:00 – Origin of life
52:15 – Path to AGI
1:03:01 – Scaling laws
1:06:17 – Compute
1:09:04 – Future of energy
1:13:00 – Human nature
1:17:54 – Google and the race to AGI
1:35:53 – Competition and AI talent
1:42:27 – Future of programming
1:48:53 – John von Neumann
1:58:07 – p(doom)
2:02:50 – Humanity
2:05:56 – Consciousness and quantum computation
2:12:06 – David Foster Wallace
2:19:20 – Education and research

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