How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe | Demis Hassabis

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Can AI help us answer life's biggest questions? In this visionary conversation, Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible capabilities of AI with head of TED Chris Anderson. Hassabis explains how AI models like AlphaFold — which accurately predicted the shapes of all 200 million proteins known to science in under a year — have already accelerated scientific discovery in ways that will benefit humanity. Next up? Hassabis says AI has the potential to unlock the greatest mysteries surrounding our minds, bodies and the universe.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	AI is the future, but we're not all the way there yet.
0:17.0	Those were voices of attendees at TED 2024
0:21.0	to better understand what AI can do and how it can unlock big scientific questions,
0:27.0	there are few better voices to talk about it than someone behind major AI breakthroughs in the last decade, co-founder and CEO of Google
0:34.8	Deep Mind, Demis Hasibis. He sits down at Ted 2024 with head of Ted Chris
0:39.9	Anderson to unpack the AI present, its challenges, and its potential in the coming years,
0:46.0	after a short break.
0:47.0	Then it's so good to have you here.
0:51.9	It's fantastic to be here.
0:53.0	Thanks, Chris.
0:54.1	Now, you told Time magazine,
0:57.0	I want to understand the big questions,
0:59.1	the really big ones that you normally go into philosophy or physics
1:02.4	if you're interested in them.
1:04.2	I thought building AI would be the fastest route
1:08.0	to answer some of those questions.
1:10.6	Why did you think that? Well, when I was at, I guess when I was a kid,
1:15.0	my favorite subject was physics,
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