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- Oct 1, 202638 min
From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AI
Learn how invisible, mathematical watermarks help trace AI provenance, protect against misuse, and safeguard protein sequence design without impacting biological function. Timecodes:00:00 Introduction 00:34 What is a watermark?04:35 SynthID15:16 Images and video 19:28 SynthID Bio28:00 Future of resilience Learn more about SynthID Bio: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/ Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Sep 9, 202644 min
Can AI help us better predict the weather?
Can artificial intelligence solve one of science’s most chaotic physics puzzles? In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, to explore how machine learning is transforming global weather forecasting. From providing critical early warnings for Category 5 storms like Hurricane Melissa to predicting renewable energy supply and agricultural impacts, see how models like GraphCast and WeatherNext 3 are building upon decades of numerical physics to reshape our understanding of the atmosphere.Learn more about WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model yet: https://deepmind.google/science/weathernext/Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction00:38 Hurricane Melissa11:50 Why weather forecasting is hard14:13 Traditional models vs AI models 21:55 Probabilistic forecasting 26:00 WeatherNext 3 33:00 Future outlook 43:44 Hannah's reflections Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Aug 26, 202644 min
The mathematics of AI uncertainty
Now, if you ask an AI a question, it will usually give you an absolute answer with unwavering authority, even if that answer turns out to be wrong. In fact, today's AI seems to be missing a fundamental human trait: self-doubt. Long before the current wave of large language models, one academic researcher was trying to give machines a sense of their own limitations. Zoubin Ghahramani has spent the last 30 years pioneering a type of intelligence built on the mathematics of uncertainty. Today, as a professor at Cambridge and VP of Research at Google DeepMind, Zoubin finds himself at the heart of another interesting debate: will improving machine uncertainty be one of the missing pieces to ever improving AI? Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 01:06 The role of uncertainty 07:45 Correctness vs confidence 09:40 Historical perspectives 16:10 Bayesian thinking in AI 26:30 Uncertainty in the real world 36:42 Future research and AGI Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Jul 10, 202653 min
Understanding the inner thoughts of AI
Neel and his team are trying to do something phenomenally difficult: understand an intelligence that didn't come with a manual. Together, they explore the cutting-edge "neuroscience" of artificial intelligence—revealing the surprising, elegant structures being discovered inside these networks (like spare autoencoders), the inherent limits of looking under the hood, and why interpretability is absolutely essential if we are to build safe, aligned and trustworthy AI as we move towards AGI. Learn more about this area of research via https://deepmind.google/ Timecodes 00:00 Introduction 02:41 Motivation for interpretability research 04:01 Mechanistic interpretability 08:14 Chain of thought monitoring 18:14 Interpretability techniques 35:00 Auditing models for safety 48:53 What comes next for interpretability Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Jun 23, 202642 min
When millions of AI agents meet
Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 1:07 Defining AI agents 4:44 Agentic exploration in science and research 15:46 Delegation between agents 22:46 Agentic security and traps 29:31 Building an agentic economy 33:22 Cognitive monoculture 36:29 Distributed intelligence To read the research, search for: Distributional AGI Safety, May 2026 Intelligent AI Delegation, February 2026 Virtual Agent Economies, September 2025 Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Mar 10, 202653 min
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-time Go world champion. On the other, AlphaGo, a neural network based AI system built on a powerful technique called reinforcement learning. In the blink of an eye, the world changed. Exactly one decade later, we look back at the match that sparked the modern AI revolution. From algorithmic discovery to the solving of scientific grand challenges like protein folding, the foundation was laid right there on that wooden board. Join Hannah Fry, Pushmeet Kohli (VP, Science) and Thore Graepel (AlphaGo team & Distinguished Research Scientist) as they unpick the legacy of AlphaGo. 🎥 AlphaGo https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y 🎥 The Thinking Game: https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Dec 16, 202550 min
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 on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Dec 11, 202547 min
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 HardoonEditor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma YousifMusic composition: Eleni ShawAudio engineer: Richard Courtice Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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