logo
episode-header-image
Apr 2025
49m 38s

Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver

Hannah Fry
About this episode
In this episode of Google DeepMind: The Podcast, VP of Reinforcement Learning, David Silver, describes his vision for the future of AI, exploring the concept of the "era of experience" versus the current "era of human data". Using AlphaGo and AlphaZero as examples, he highlights how these systems surpassed human capabilities by engaging in reinforcement lear ... Show More
Up next
Mar 10
10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli
Seoul, March 2016. Two players sit hunched over a 19x19 grid covered in a sea of black and white stones. They are playing the ancient game of Go - a game of unimaginable complexity long thought impossible for a machine to master. On one side is Lee Sedol (Sae Dol), a legendary 18 ... Show More
53m 47s
Dec 16
The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)
Thanks for joining us this year. 🔔 Subscribe to stay updated on our return in 2026, and revisit our episode library to catch up on everything from driverless cars to drug discovery: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZBiUr6_Qf8YTS2Oqy3OGZEj Please leave us a review ... Show More
50m 20s
Dec 11
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
Further readingLevels of AGI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462The road to AGI (Google DeepMind Podcast, S2): https://youtu.be/Uy4OYU7PQYAThanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah FrySeries Producer: Dan HardoonEdito ... Show More
47m 38s
Recommended Episodes
Nov 2024
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude’s character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https: ... Show More
5h 22m
Sep 2025
Can Education Keep Up With Artificial Intelligence With Niki Skene
<p>Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast with Jonathan Green! In this episode, we delve into the ever-evolving realm of AI in education, featuring our insightful guest, Niki Skene. Niki is a pioneer in innovation, orchestrating transformative programs in Silicon Valley t ... Show More
29m 7s
Oct 2025
Humans&: Bridging IQ and EQ in Machine Learning with Eric Zelikman
The AI industry is obsessed with making models smarter. But what if they’re building the wrong kind of intelligence? In launching his new venture, humans&, Eric Zelikman sees an opportunity to shift the focus from pure IQ to building models with EQ. Sarah Guo is joined by Eric Ze ... Show More
36m 58s
Sep 2024
The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah and Elad in this week of No Priors. Andrej, who was a founding team member of OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, needs no introduction. In this episode, Andrej discusses the evolution of self-driving cars, comparing Tesla and Waymo’s app ... Show More
44m 16s
Jun 2025
Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI
When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern?Although it's now generally accepted that this technology will play a major role in our future, a lot of conversations around AI and machine learning come back to the argument over us losing control ... Show More
28m 35s
Nov 2024
Refik Anadol, Director / Media Artist at Refik Anadol Studio, Visiting Researcher & Lecturer at UCLA's Design Media Arts Department.
Refik Anadol, an internationally renowned media artist and director, joins Behind the Tech to discuss his journey from a childhood fascination with computers in Istanbul to becoming a pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. In this episode, Refik shares his ea ... Show More
49m 31s
Jul 2025
How Tom Bilyeu Uses AI + Why He'll Never Hire Again
Want Matt's AI Tools Playbook? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/dsb Episode 67: What does the future of hiring and creative work look like in an age where A.I. can replace entire departments? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) sit ... Show More
51m 7s
Sep 2025
925: AI, Automation and the Future of Work, with Oxford’s Prof. Carl Benedikt Frey
Tech innovation’s dependence on economic systems, trust in technology throughout history, and job displacement through AI: The Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and work at the University of Oxford, Carl Benedikt Frey, talks to Jon Krohn about his latest book, How Progres ... Show More
1h 10m
Jul 2024
#229 Inside Meta's Biggest and Best Open-Source AI Model Yet with Thomas Scialom, Co-Creator of Llama3
Meta has been at the absolute edge of the open-source AI ecosystem, and with the recent release of Llama 3.1, they have officially created the largest open-source model to date. So, what's the secret behind the performance gains of Llama 3.1? What will the future of open-source A ... Show More
39m 23s