DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution | Why LLMs Will Not Commoditise & We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws

Demis Hassabis is the Co-Founder & CEO of Google DeepMind - working on AGI, responsible for AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go; and AlphaFold, which cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and was recognised with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Demis is revolutionising drug discovery at Isomorphic Labs. Ultimately, trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality.

In Today's Show We Discuss:

• What Actually Counts as AGI & Where Are We Today?

• What Are the Biggest Bottlenecks Holding AI Back Today?

• Have We Hit the Limits of Scaling Laws?

• Where Is AI Ahead of Expectations & What's Still Missing?

• Why Can't AI Systems Learn Continuously Like Humans?

• How Did DeepMind Go from Behind to Leading the Pack?

• Are We Heading Toward Model Commoditization?

• What Does the Future of Open Source Really Look Like?

• What Does a Post LLM World Look Like?

• Can AI Really Fix Drug Discovery?

• What Does "Good" AI Regulation Actually Look Like?

• Who Should Be the Ultimate Arbiter of Truth in an AI World?

• If Demis Had One Shot to Fix AI Safety, What Would He Do?

• Is This Time Different for Jobs or Will History Repeat Itself?

• How Do We Solve the Energy Crisis Created by AI?

• Why Stay in the UK Instead of Moving to Silicon Valley?

• Will Europe Ever Build a Trillion-Dollar Tech Giant?

• Meeting Elon Musk for the First Time?

• What Big Questions About AI Is No One Talking About?

• What Does Demis Want His Legacy to Be?