Demis Hassabis

art with the most cutting edge programming.

So again, in the 90s, all of the most interesting technical advances were happening in gaming, whether that was AI, graphics, physics engines, hardware, even GPUs, of course, were designed for gaming originally.

So everything that was pushing computing forward

in the 90s was due to gaming.

So interestingly, that was where the forefront of research was going on.

And it was this incredible fusion with art, you know, graphics, but also music and just the whole new media of storytelling.

And I love that.

For me, it's a sort of multidisciplinary kind of effort is, again, something I've enjoyed my whole life.

Yes, exactly.

So LLMs are kind of proposing some possible solutions and then you use evolutionary computing on top to find some novel part of the search space.

So

Actually, I think it's an example of very promising directions where you combine LLMs or foundation models with other computational techniques.

Evolutionary methods is one, but you could also imagine Monte Carlo tree search, basically many types of search algorithms or reasoning algorithms sort of on top of or using the foundation models as a basis.

So I actually think there's quite a lot of interesting things to be discovered probably with these sort of hybrid systems, let's call them.

uh being able to simulate evolution and then using that whatever we understand about that nature inspired mechanism to to then do search better and better and better yes so if you think about uh again breaking down the sort of systems we've built uh to their really fundamental core you've got like the model of the of the underlying dynamics of the system um

And then if you want to discover something new, something novel that hasn't been seen before, then you need some kind of search process on top to take you to a novel region of the search space.

And you can do that in a number of ways.

Evolutionary computing is one.

With AlphaGo, we just use Monte Carlo tree search, right?

And that's what found Move37, the new kind of never seen before strategy in Go.