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Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Hosted by Hannah Fry · EN
Join mathematician and broadcaster Professor Hannah Fry as she goes behind the scenes of the world-leading research lab to uncover the extraordinary ways AI is transforming our world. No hype. No spin, just compelling discussions and grand scientific ambition.
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10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli
Mar 1000:53:47Tap to summarizeSeoul, 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 impossible for a machine to master. On one side is Lee Sedol (Sae Dol), a legendary 18-time Go world champion. On the other, AlphaGo, a neural network based AI system built on a powerful technique called reinforcement learning. In the blink of an eye, the world changed. Exactly one decade later, we look back at the match that sparked the modern AI revolution. From algorithmic discovery to the solving of scientific grand challenges like protein folding, the foundation was laid right there on that wooden board. Join Hannah Fry, Pushmeet Kohli (VP, Science) and Thore Graepel (AlphaGo team & Distinguished Research Scientist) as they unpick the legacy of AlphaGo. 🎥 AlphaGo https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y 🎥 The Thinking Game: https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)
Dec 1600:50:20Tap to summarizeThanks 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.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZBiUr6_Qf8YTS2Oqy3OGZEj Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
Dec 1100:47:38Tap to summarizeFurther 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 not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEditor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard Courtice Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
Nov 2800:47:24Tap to summarizeLearn 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 who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEditor: Rami TzabarCommissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard CourticeVideo editor: Anthony LeAudio engineer: Perry RogantinVisual identity: Rob AshleyCommissioned by Google DeepMind Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke
Nov 600:48:32Tap to summarizeLearn more about Waymo: https://waymo.com/Thank you to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEditor: Rami TzabarCommissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard CourticeVideo editor: Anthony LeAudio engineer: Perry RogantinVisual identity: Rob AshleyCommissioned by Google DeepMind Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Pt.2 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn
Oct 1600:25:32Tap to summarizeIn part two, Hannah and Four tackle the human element at the heart of cybersecurity: Who are the bad actors, and what motivates them? They dissect the evolving strategies designed to stop social engineering attacks - like passkeys and risk-based authentication - and confront the complex security and privacy challenges that may be introduced by autonomous agents. Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Pt.1 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn
Oct 900:46:30Tap to summarizeFurther reading:CodeMender: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security/Cybersecurity at Google: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/ai-security-frontier-strategy-tools/Threat intelligence report: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/adversarial-misuse-generative-aiThanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry Series Producer: Dan Hardoon Editor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif Music composition: Eleni Shaw Audio engineer: Richard Courtice Video editor: Bilal Merhi Audio engineer: Perry Rogantin Visual identity: Rob Ashley Commissioned by Google DeepMind Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Genie 3: An Infinite World Model with Shlomi Fruchter and Jack Parker-Holder
Aug 2200:56:40Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Professor Hannah Fry speaks with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter about Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. The conversation covers how this model's auto-regressive nature allows for the creation of consistent, explorable worlds from text or image prompts, and how its capabilities differ from video generation models like Veo. Further readingGenie 3SIMA, A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environmentsSIMA, Google DeepMind: The PodcastxLand Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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A Whistle Stop Tour of AI Creation with Paige Bailey
Jul 1000:29:42Tap to summarizeThis week's episode is a slight departure from our usual deep dives. Join Paige Bailey, DevRel lead, as she guides Hannah Fry though some of her favorite AI tools. Having spent years understanding the 'what' of these models, Hannah finally gets to experience the 'how’ – from generating prompts and 'vibe coding', to creating her own version of the infamous spaghetti meme.Learn more and try the tools yourself:Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/Google Labs: https://labs.google/AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/Veo 3: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/Flow: https://labs.google/flow/Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEditor: Rami TzabarCommissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard CourticeProduction Manager: Dan LazardStudio Manager: Nicholas DukeVideo Director: Bernardo ResendeVideo Editor: Bilal MerhiAudio Engineer: Perry RogantinCamera and Lighting Operator: Robert MessereProduction Coordination: Zoey Roberts, Sarah Ellen MortonVisual Identity and Design: Rob AshleyCommissioned by Google DeepMind Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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The Nature of AI: Solving the Planet's Data Gap with Drew Purves
Jun 1900:40:21Tap to summarizeFurther reading:Natural forests of the world: paper, data and benchmarksForest loss drivers: paper, summary from WRI, and blog from GFWForest loss drivers code: Google Earth Engine; at WRI; at GFW; or Zenodo. Deep learning based remote sensing (open source): Jeo, GeeFlowSpecies mapping paper: ArxivGoogle resources: Google Earth Engine. Agri with Google, wildlife camerasPerch: code, paperPerch x coral reefs: BlogAgile Modelling: paper, codeDolphinGemma: blog Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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