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Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Hannah Fry

Join mathematician and broadcaster Professor Hannah Fry as she goes behind the scenes of the world-leading research lab to uncover the extraordinary ways AI is transforming our world. No hype. No spin, just compelling discussions and grand scientific ambition.

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 (...

10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli

2025/12/16

AI Ready

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 ...

The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)

2025/12/11

The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

Further reading Levels of AGI paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462 The road to AGI (Google DeepMind Podcast, S2): https://youtu.be/Uy4OYU7PQYA Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: * Presenter: Professor Hannah F...

The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)

2025/11/28

AI Ready

AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper

Learn more about AlphaFold: https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/ Watch the story behind AlphaFold in The Thinking Game, now available for free: https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ Thank you to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:...

AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper

2025/11/06

Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

Learn more about Waymo: https://waymo.com/ Thank you to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: * Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry * Series Producer: Dan Hardoon * Editor: Rami Tzabar * Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif * M...

Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

2025/10/16

Pt.2 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn

In part two, Hannah and Four tackle the human element at the heart of cybersecurity: Who are the bad actors, and what motivates them? They dissect the evolving strategies designed to stop social engineering attacks - like passkeys and risk-based authentica...

Pt.2 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn

2025/10/09

Pt.1 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn

Further reading: * CodeMender: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security/ * Cybersecurity at Google: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/ai-security-frontier-strategy-tools/ * Threat int...

Pt.1 Beyond Phishing: Cyber Threats in the Age of AI with Four Flynn

2025/08/22

Genie 3: An Infinite World Model with Shlomi Fruchter and Jack Parker-Holder

In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry speaks with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter about Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. The conversation covers how this model's auto-re...

Genie 3: An Infinite World Model with Shlomi Fruchter and Jack Parker-Holder

2025/07/10

A Whistle Stop Tour of AI Creation with Paige Bailey

This week's episode is a slight departure from our usual deep dives. Join Paige Bailey, DevRel lead, as she guides Hannah Fry though some of her favorite AI tools. Having spent years understanding the 'what' of these models, Hannah finally gets to experien...

A Whistle Stop Tour of AI Creation with Paige Bailey

2025/06/19

The Nature of AI: Solving the Planet's Data Gap with Drew Purves

Further reading: * Natural forests of the world: paper, data and benchmarks * Forest loss drivers: paper, summary from WRI, and blog from GFW * Forest loss drivers code: Google Earth Engine; at WRI; at GFW; or Zenodo. * Deep learning based remote sen...

The Nature of AI: Solving the Planet's Data Gap with Drew Purves

2025/06/05

A Quest for a Cure: AI Drug Design with Isomorphic Labs

In this episode, host Hannah Fry is joined by Max Jaderberg and Rebecca Paul of Isomorphic Labs to explore the future of drug discovery in the age of AI. They discuss how new technology, particularly AlphaFold 3, is revolutionizing the field by predicting ...

A Quest for a Cure: AI Drug Design with Isomorphic Labs

2025/05/22

Redefining Robotics with Carolina Parada

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Carolina Parada, Senior Director and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind. They explore the recent leap forward in robotic capabilities, highlighting advancements in multimodal understanding and embodied reasoning, which...

Redefining Robotics with Carolina Parada

2025/05/08

AI and the Future of Health with Joelle Barral

In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry interviews Joelle Barral, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, about AI in healthcare. They discuss existing AI applications including image analysis for diabetic retinopathy and the expansion of diagnostic ...

AI and the Future of Health with Joelle Barral

2025/04/24

Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan

In this episode, Hannah is once again joined by Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, for a philosophical deep dive on AI. They explore everything from consciousness and meta...

Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan

2025/04/10

Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver

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 ...

Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver

2024/12/20

Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne

In our final episode for the year, we explore Project Astra, a research prototype exploring future capabilities of a universal AI assistant that can understand the world around you. Host Hannah Fry is joined by Greg Wayne, Director in Research at Google De...

Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne

2024/12/12

Gemini 2.0 and the Evolution of Agentic AI with Oriol Vinyals

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Oriol Vinyals, VP of Drastic Research and Gemini co-lead. They discuss the evolution of agents from single-task models to more general-purpose models capable of broader applications, like Gemini. Vinyals guides Hannah t...

Gemini 2.0 and the Evolution of Agentic AI with Oriol Vinyals

2024/12/05

The Balancing Act: Regulation & AI with Nicklas Lundblad

There is broad consensus across the tech industry, governments and society, that as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in every aspect of our world, regulation will be essential. But what does this look like? Can it be adopted without stifling i...

The Balancing Act: Regulation & AI with Nicklas Lundblad

2024/11/26

Inside NotebookLM with Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson

NotebookLM is a research assistant powered by Gemini that draws on expertise from storytelling to present information in an engaging way. It allows users to upload their own documents and generate insights, explanations, and—more recently—podcasts. This fe...

Inside NotebookLM with Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson

2024/11/21

AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper

Join Professor Hannah Fry at the AI for Science Forum for a fascinating conversation with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. They explore how AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery, delving into topics like the nuclear pore complex, plastic-eating en...

AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper