AlphaGo
7 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2023 by Colin Murdock · said 29 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
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2025 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
- Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- Roblox CEO: We Want AI To Generate Full Games
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2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 14, 2023 positive
Jan 23, 2025
Demis Hassabis says knowledge compression cannot solve novel math without planning
“Just understanding the world's information, and then trying to sort of almost compress that into your memory, that's not enough for solving a novel math problem, or a novel, novel conjecture. So there, you know, we start needing to bring in, I think we talked …”
May 21, 2025 positive
Hassabis: Test-time compute elevated AlphaZero from master level to superhuman
“We had versions of AlphaGo and AlphaZero with the thinking turned off, so it was just the model telling you its first idea. And, you know, it's not bad, it's maybe like master level, something like that, but then if you turn the thinking on, it's way beyond wo…”
May 21, 2025 positive
Brin: Inference-time compute offsets 5,000x in training compute
“What they did with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, as you mentioned it showed, as I recall, something you would take 5000 times as much training to match what you were able to do with still a lot of training and the inference time compute that you were doing with Go.”
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Hassabis: Top Go player reached record Elo learning from AlphaGo
“The best South Go player in the world is a South Korean, and he was about 15, I think, when AlphaGo match happened. He's in his mid-twenties now, and he's by far the strongest player there's ever, Been by the ELO ratings, because he's learned natively, young e…”
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Brockman: AI Will Produce 'AlphaGo Moments' Across All Scientific and Creative Domains
“That is going to happen in every single domain. It will happen in science, in math, in physics, in chemistry, it's going to happen in material science, it's going to happen in biology, it's going to happen in healthcare, drug discovery, but it may also even ha…”
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Hinton: AI in closed systems like math can improve without external data
“I believe, for example, in areas like mathematics, because it's a closed system you don't need data. You can just make conjectures and see if you can prove them and keep on like that. In that sense, it's a bit like AlphaGo where you can play against yourself.”