Demis Hassabis

So problems where if you think of the tree of all knowledge that's out there in the universe, can you unlock some root nodes that unlock entire branches or new avenues of discovery that people can build on afterwards? Right. And, uh, for us, protein folding and alpha fold was one of those. He's always, you know, top of my list.

So problems where if you think of the tree of all knowledge that's out there in the universe, can you unlock some root nodes that unlock entire branches or new avenues of discovery that people can build on afterwards? Right. And, uh, for us, protein folding and alpha fold was one of those. He's always, you know, top of my list.

So problems where if you think of the tree of all knowledge that's out there in the universe, can you unlock some root nodes that unlock entire branches or new avenues of discovery that people can build on afterwards? Right. And, uh, for us, protein folding and alpha fold was one of those. He's always, you know, top of my list.

I have a kind of mental list of all these types of problems that I've come across throughout my life and, and just being generally interested in all areas of science and, um, and, and, and sort of thinking through which ones would be suitable, uh, would both be hugely impactful, um, but also suitable for these types of techniques.

I have a kind of mental list of all these types of problems that I've come across throughout my life and, and just being generally interested in all areas of science and, um, and, and, and sort of thinking through which ones would be suitable, uh, would both be hugely impactful, um, but also suitable for these types of techniques.

I have a kind of mental list of all these types of problems that I've come across throughout my life and, and just being generally interested in all areas of science and, um, and, and, and sort of thinking through which ones would be suitable, uh, would both be hugely impactful, um, but also suitable for these types of techniques.

And I think we're, you know, we're going to see a kind of new golden era of these types of new strategies, new ideas in very important areas of human endeavor. Now, I would say one thing to say, though, is that we haven't. fully cracked creativity yet, right? So I don't want to claim that.

And I think we're, you know, we're going to see a kind of new golden era of these types of new strategies, new ideas in very important areas of human endeavor. Now, I would say one thing to say, though, is that we haven't. fully cracked creativity yet, right? So I don't want to claim that.

And I think we're, you know, we're going to see a kind of new golden era of these types of new strategies, new ideas in very important areas of human endeavor. Now, I would say one thing to say, though, is that we haven't. fully cracked creativity yet, right? So I don't want to claim that.

I think that there are, you know, I often describe as three levels of creativity, and I think AI is capable of the first two. So first one would be interpolation. So you give it, you know, a million pictures of cats, an AI system, a million pictures of cats, and you say, create me a prototypical cat, and it will just like average all the million cats pictures that it's seen.

I think that there are, you know, I often describe as three levels of creativity, and I think AI is capable of the first two. So first one would be interpolation. So you give it, you know, a million pictures of cats, an AI system, a million pictures of cats, and you say, create me a prototypical cat, and it will just like average all the million cats pictures that it's seen.

I think that there are, you know, I often describe as three levels of creativity, and I think AI is capable of the first two. So first one would be interpolation. So you give it, you know, a million pictures of cats, an AI system, a million pictures of cats, and you say, create me a prototypical cat, and it will just like average all the million cats pictures that it's seen.

And that prototypical one won't be in the training set. So it will be a unique cat, But that's not very interesting from a creative point of view, right? It's just an averaging. But the second thing would be what I call extrapolation.

And that prototypical one won't be in the training set. So it will be a unique cat, But that's not very interesting from a creative point of view, right? It's just an averaging. But the second thing would be what I call extrapolation.

And that prototypical one won't be in the training set. So it will be a unique cat, But that's not very interesting from a creative point of view, right? It's just an averaging. But the second thing would be what I call extrapolation.

So that's more like AlphaGo, where you've played 10 million games of Go, you've looked at a few million human games of Go, but then you come up with, you extrapolate from what's known to a new strategy never seen before, like Move 37. Okay, so that's very valuable already. I think that is true creativity.

So that's more like AlphaGo, where you've played 10 million games of Go, you've looked at a few million human games of Go, but then you come up with, you extrapolate from what's known to a new strategy never seen before, like Move 37. Okay, so that's very valuable already. I think that is true creativity.

So that's more like AlphaGo, where you've played 10 million games of Go, you've looked at a few million human games of Go, but then you come up with, you extrapolate from what's known to a new strategy never seen before, like Move 37. Okay, so that's very valuable already. I think that is true creativity.

But then there's a third level, which I call it kind of invention or out of the box thinking, which is not only can you come up with a move 37, but could you have invented go, right? Or another measure I like to use is if we went back to time of Einstein in 1900, early 1900s, could an AI system actually come up with general relativity with the same information that Einstein had at the time?

But then there's a third level, which I call it kind of invention or out of the box thinking, which is not only can you come up with a move 37, but could you have invented go, right? Or another measure I like to use is if we went back to time of Einstein in 1900, early 1900s, could an AI system actually come up with general relativity with the same information that Einstein had at the time?