This week’s episode is a conversation with Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s artificial intelligence division. We talk about Google’s latest A.I. models, Gemini and Gemma; the existential risks of artificial intelligence; his timelines for artificial general intelligence; and what he thinks the world will look like post-A.G.I.

Additional listening and reading: 

• klein-podcast-demis-hassabis.html">A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.
• This interview was recorded on Wednesday. Since then, Google has temporarily suspended Gemini’s ability to generate images of humans, following gemini-german-uniforms.html">criticism of images the chatbot generated of people of color in Nazi-era uniforms.
• open-source-ai.html">Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots

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