#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
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Lex Fridman
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Lex Fridman
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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
Why it matters
Hassabis lays out DeepMind's concrete views on the path to AGI, scaling law limits, AlphaEvolve, and world-simulation models like Veo 3 — useful context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → for engineers building on frontier capabilities and reasoning about where model progress is headed.
Key quotes
“So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis.”
Demis Hassabis
“My estimate is sort of 50% chance by in the next five years, so by 2030 let's say.”
Demis Hassabis
“I think information is primary, information is the most sort of fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy and matter.”
Demis Hassabis
“And yet somehow these systems are reverse engineering from just watching YouTube videos.”
Demis Hassabis
“It's harder to invent things than to fast follow.”
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