About this episode
<p>AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s Director of Research, describes the journey to get there, and takes Hannah on a whistle-stop tour of DeepMind’s HQ and its research.</p><p>If you have a question or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/deepmind?lang=en">@DeepMind</a> using the hashtag #DMpodcast) or email us at <a href="mailto:podcast@deepmind.com">podcast@deepmind.com</a>.</p><p><strong>Further reading:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCSNsLKHfM">OpenAI: An overview of neural networks and the progress that has been made in AI</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghzG14dT-w">Shane Legg, DeepMind co-founder: Measuring machine intelligence at the 2010 Singularity Summit</a><br /><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329">Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter: Paper on defining machine intelligence</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYfzux7JKHE">Demis Hassabis: Talk on the history, frontiers and capabilities of AI</a><br /><a href="https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/positively-shaping-artificial-intelligence/?source=post_page">Robert Wiblin: Positively shaping the development of artificial intelligence</a><br /><a href="https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/">Asilomar AI Principles</a><br /><a href="http://incompleteideas.net/book/bookdraft2017nov5.pdf">Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction</a></p><p><strong>Interviewees:</strong> Koray Kavukcuoglu, Director of Research; Trevor Back, Product Manager for DeepMind’s science research; research scientists Raia Hadsell and Murray Shanahan; and DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis.</p><p><strong>Credits:</strong><br />Presenter: Hannah Fry<br />Editor: David Prest<br />Senior Producer: Louisa Field<br />Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon<br />Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown<br />Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)<br />Commissioned by DeepMind</p> <p><p>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! </p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>