The Man Who Thinks AI Could Surpass Humanity
5/31/202616 min
For decades, artificial intelligence was dismissed as science fiction. Then one lab changed everything.Inside a small London research company, scientists were teaching machines to play games, predict protein structures, and solve problems humans couldn’t. What started as an obscure AI experiment soon became the center of a global race for superintelligence — with enormous consequences for medicine, warfare, scientific discovery, and the future of human intelligence itself.On this episode of Morning Wire, journalist Sebastian Mallaby explains how DeepMind helped launch the modern AI revolution and why its founder Demis Hassabis believes artificial intelligence could push beyond the limits of human understanding. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.- - -Ep. 2815- - -Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3- - -Today's Sponsors:Fast Growing Trees - Visit https://fastgrowingtrees.com to get 20% off your first purchase when using the code WIRE at checkout.Alliance Defending Freedom - Visit https://JoinADF.com/WIRE or text “WIRE” to 83848 to learn more.- - -Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacymorning wire,morning wire podcast,the morning wire podcast,Georgia Howe,John Bickley,daily wire podcast,podcast,news podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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John Bickley· Host0:33
[upbeat music] For years, artificial intelligence was treated like science fiction or a Silicon Valley party trick. Then almost overnight, it began writing code, designing proteins, and raising a question that suddenly feels less than theoretical: Can machines actually think?
Speaker 00:52
In his new book, The Infinity Machine, journalist Sebastian Mallaby traces how AI moved from academic obscurity to the center of science, business, and geopolitics.
John Bickley· Host1:03
And at the heart of that story is a man named Demis Hassabis, the chess prodigy and Google DeepMind co-founder, whose work helped launch the modern AI race.
Speaker 01:12
Mallaby joins us today to explain the human story about how Hassabis got us here, how AI is already changing, and why the next breakthroughs may be far bigger than chatbots.
John Bickley· Host1:23
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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