Latest Hannah fry Podcast Episodes
The promise of AI with Demis Hassabis
DeepMind: The Podcast - March 15, 2022 06:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsHannah 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...
Fair for all
DeepMind: The Podcast - March 01, 2022 06:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsAI needs to benefit everyone, not just those who build it. But fulfilling this promise requires careful thought before new technologies are built and released into the world. In this episode, Hannah delves into some of the most pressing and difficult ethical and social questions surrounding AI t...
Me, myself and AI
DeepMind: The Podcast - February 22, 2022 10:16 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsAI doesn’t just exist in the lab, it’s already solving a range of problems in the real world. In this episode, Hannah encounters a realistic recreation of her voice by WaveNet, the voice synthesising system that powers the Google Assistant and helps people with speech difficulties and illnesses ...
AI for science
DeepMind: The Podcast - February 16, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsStep inside DeepMind's laboratories and you'll find researchers studying DNA to understand the mysteries of life, seeking new ways to use nuclear energy, or putting AI to the test in mind-bending areas of maths. In this episode, Hannah meets Pushmeet Kohli, the head of science at DeepMind, to un...
The road to AGI
DeepMind: The Podcast - February 15, 2022 06:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsHannah meets DeepMind co-founder and chief scientist Shane Legg, the man who coined the phrase ‘artificial general intelligence’, and explores how it might be built. Why does Shane think AGI is possible? When will it be realised? And what could it look like? Hannah also explores a simple theory ...
Let's get physical
DeepMind: The Podcast - February 08, 2022 06:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsDo you need a body to have intelligence? And can one exist without the other? Hannah takes listeners behind the scenes of DeepMind's robotics lab in London where she meets robots that are trying to independently learn new skills, and explores why physical intelligence is a necessary part of inte...
Better together
DeepMind: The Podcast - February 01, 2022 06:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsCooperation is at the heart of our society. Inventing the railway, giving birth to the Renaissance, and creating the Covid-19 vaccine all required people to combine efforts. But cooperation is so much more. It governs our education systems, healthcare, and food production. In this episode, Hanna...
Speaking of intelligence
DeepMind: The Podcast - January 25, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsHannah explores the potential of language models, the questions they raise, and if teaching a computer about language is enough to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). Beyond helping us communicate ideas, language plays a crucial role in memory, cooperation, and thinking – which is why ...
A breakthrough unfolds
DeepMind: The Podcast - January 25, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsIn December 2019, DeepMind’s AI system, AlphaFold, solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, known as the protein-folding problem. A headline in the journal Nature read, “It will change everything” and the President of the UK's Royal Society called it a “stunning advance [that arrived] de...
DeepMind: The Podcast with Hannah Fry – Season 2 coming soon!
DeepMind: The Podcast - January 10, 2022 13:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsThe chart-topping podcast which uncovers the extraordinary ways artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world is back for a second season. Join mathematician and broadcaster Professor Hannah Fry behind the scenes of world-leading AI research lab DeepMind to get the inside story of how A...
Demis Hassabis: The interview
DeepMind: The Podcast - September 17, 2019 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsIn this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. She digs into his former life as a chess player, games designer and neuroscientist and explores how his love of chess helped him to get start-up funding, what drives him and his vision, and why...
Towards the future
DeepMind: The Podcast - September 10, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsAI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s Director of Research, describes the journey to get there, and takes Hannah on a whistle-stop tour of De...
AI for everyone
DeepMind: The Podcast - September 03, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsWhile there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused. In this episode Hannah investigates the more human side of the technology, some ethical issues around how it is developed and used, and the efforts to create a fu...
Out of the lab
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 27, 2019 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsThe ambition of much of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world. In this episode, Hannah meets the people building systems that could be used to save the sight of thousands, help us solve one of the most fundamental problems in biology and reduce energy...
AI, Robot
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 20, 2019 10:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsForget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call ‘embodied AI’: robot arms that are learning tasks like picking up plastic bricks, which humans fi...
Life is like a game
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 20, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsVideo games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraft II - a challenging video game that requires players to control the onscreen action with as many as 800 clicks a minute. She is guided by Oriol V...
Go to Zero
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 20, 2019 09:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsIn March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to be a decade ahead of its time. Since then the team has continued to develop the system and...
Go to Zero
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 20, 2019 09:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsIn March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to be a decade ahead of its time. Since then the team has continued to develop the system and recently...
AI and Neuroscience: The virtuous circle
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 20, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsWhat can the human brain teach us about AI? And what can AI teach us about our own intelligence? These questions underpin a lot of AI research. In this first episode, Hannah meets the DeepMind Neuroscience team to explore these connections and discovers how our brains are like birds’ wings, what...
DeepMind: The Podcast - trailer
DeepMind: The Podcast - August 12, 2019 09:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsSelected as “New and Noteworthy” by Apple Podcasts, the highly-praised, award-nominated first season of "DeepMind: The Podcast" explores the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI). Join mathematician and broadcaster Hannah Fry as she meets world-class scientists and thinkers as they ex...
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