Podcast Episodes

AI: Your New Creative Muse? with Douglas Eck

Episode 2

Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Google DeepMind's senior research director Douglas Eck to explore AI's capacity for true creativity. They delve into the complexities of defining creativity, the cha…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Unreasonably Effective AI with Demis Hassabis

Episode 1

It has been a few years since Google DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, and Professor Hannah Fry caught up.

In that time, the world has caught on to artificial intelligence—in a big way. Lis…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The promise of AI with Demis Hassabis

Episode 9

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…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Fair for all

Episode 8

AI 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 …

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

Me, myself and AI

Episode 7

AI 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…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

AI for science

Episode 6

Step 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 are…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

The road to AGI

Episode 5

Hannah 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 possi…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

Let's get physical

Episode 4

Do 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 i…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Better together

Episode 3

Cooperation 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 muc…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

A breakthrough unfolds

Episode 1

In 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 everyt…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago