Google DeepMind: The Podcast

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1. From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AI

   1 oktober 2026 · 38 min

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   Learn how invisible, mathematical watermarks help trace AI provenance, protect against misuse, and safeguard protein sequence design without impacting biological function. Lees meer

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   00:00 Introduction

   00:34 What is a watermark?

   04:35 SynthID

   15:16 Images and video

   19:28 SynthID Bio

   28:00 Future of resilience

   Learn more about SynthID Bio: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/

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2. Can AI help us better predict the weather?

   9 september 2026 · 44 min

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   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. Lees meer

   Learn more about WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model yet: https://deepmind.google/science/weathernext/

   Timestamps:

   00:00 Introduction

   00:38 Hurricane Melissa

   11:50 Why weather forecasting is hard

   14:13 Traditional models vs AI models

   21:55 Probabilistic forecasting

   26:00 WeatherNext 3

   33:00 Future outlook

   43:44 Hannah's reflections

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3. The mathematics of AI uncertainty

   26 augustus 2026 · 45 min

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   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? Lees meer

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   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

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4. Understanding the inner thoughts of AI

   10 juli 2026 · 53 min

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   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/ Lees meer

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   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

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5. When millions of AI agents meet

   23 juni 2026 · 43 min

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   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

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6. 10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli

   10 maart 2026 · 54 min

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   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. Lees meer

   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

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

   16 december 2025 · 50 min

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   Thanks for joining us this year. Lees meer

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

   11 december 2025 · 48 min

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   Further reading Lees meer

   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 Fry

   Series Producer: Dan Hardoon

   Editor: Rami Tzabar

   Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif

   Music composition: Eleni Shaw

   Audio engineer: Richard Courtice

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9. AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper

   28 november 2025 · 47 min

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   Learn more about AlphaFold: https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/ Lees meer

   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:

   Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry

   Series Producer: Dan Hardoon

   Editor: Rami Tzabar

   Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif

   Music composition: Eleni Shaw

   Audio engineer: Richard Courtice

   Video editor: Anthony Le

   Audio engineer: Perry Rogantin

   Visual identity: Rob Ashley

   Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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10. Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

    6 november 2025 · 49 min

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    Learn more about Waymo: https://waymo.com/ Lees meer

    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

    Music composition: Eleni Shaw

    Audio engineer: Richard Courtice

    Video editor: Anthony Le

    Audio engineer: Perry Rogantin

    Visual identity: Rob Ashley

    Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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