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Dwarkesh Podcast

Hosted by Dwarkesh Patel

Deep-dive conversations with the world's leading researchers, historians, and founders.

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Demis Hassabis Rejects the Pure LLM Dogma: Why Next-Token Prediction Alone Won't Hit AGI
⚡The Clash
4 min
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Demis Hassabis Rejects the Pure LLM Dogma: Why Next-Token Prediction Alone Won't Hit AGI

While Silicon Valley pours billions into larger language models, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis warns that predicting the next word won't get us to real machine reasoning without grounded simulation and search.

Demis Hassabis▶ 23:40

"If you look at how human children learn, they don't consume 10 trillion words to understand gravity. They drop a cup. They interact with an actual dynamic environment."

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The Surprising Origin of DeepMind: Why Demis Hassabis Built SimCity Clones Before Neural Nets
🔀Plot Twist
3 min
Dwarkesh Patel•Demis Hassabis

The Surprising Origin of DeepMind: Why Demis Hassabis Built SimCity Clones Before Neural Nets

Long before founding DeepMind, Demis Hassabis was a teenage gaming prodigy co-designing Theme Park. Here is how simulating amusement parks led straight to modern reinforcement learning.

Demis Hassabis▶ 53:30

"Game engines are the purest sandboxes humanity ever engineered. If your agent can conquer the rules of an interactive simulation, you understand intelligence."

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The Full Picture: Everything Demis Hassabis Revealed on AGI, AlphaFold 3, and DeepMind's 10-Year Horizon
🎙️The Full Picture
7 min
Dwarkesh Patel•Demis Hassabis

The Full Picture: Everything Demis Hassabis Revealed on AGI, AlphaFold 3, and DeepMind's 10-Year Horizon

The big takeaways from Demis Hassabis' two-hour conversation: the limits of pre-training, how AlphaFold 3 cracks molecular biology, and where Google DeepMind is heading next.

Demis Hassabis▶ 23:40

"If you look at how human children learn, they don't consume 10 trillion words to understand gravity. They drop a cup."

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