Demis Hassabis
20 statements across 1 episodes · 14 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2026 by Demis Hassabis · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Apr 29, 2026 positive
Hassabis proposes the 'Einstein Test' to evaluate true AI scientific creativity
“The way we would test that is, you know, sometimes call it my Einstein test, which is, you know, can you train a system With the knowledge of cutoff of 19 oh one. And then will it come up with the, you know, what Einstein did in 19 oh five, including special r…”
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Hassabis doubts inference will ever be free due to Jevons' paradox
“Yeah, I'm not sure inference will ever be essentially free. I mean, there's sort of Jevon's paradox and other things about like, I think we'll just end up using All of us will end up using whatever we can get our hands on, and you could imagine millions of age…”
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: Current AI paradigms will be part of final AGI architecture
“The components that you just mentioned, I'm pretty sure will be part of the final architecture for AGI. So I think they've come such a long way now and we've proven out so many things about what they can do. I can't see a world in which we will sort of realize…”
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Hassabis: Frontier AI has not yet made a massive scientific discovery
“I've yet to seen anything so far, and we all tinker with same things, you know, some math problems that are a little bit harder than IMO and so on. I haven't seen anything yet that is a true genuine, You know, massive discovery. That's my personal opinion.”
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Hassabis: Three Conditions Enable AlphaFold-Style AI Breakthroughs
“The lesson I've learned from all the alpha projects we've done, specifically alpha go and alpha fold is I think the techniques we have and the problems I look like to look for are great in, if this, if the situation can be described as massive combinatorial se…”
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Hassabis: Lack of continual learning holds AI agents back from full tasks
“I think that's one of the not having continual learning currently is one of the things holding back agents from doing full tasks. You know, I think they're really useful for aspects of tasks right now, and you can patch them together and do some really cool th…”
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: AI startups in physical sciences are safe from foundation model updates
“I think that those kinds of interdisciplinary teams, especially if it involves the world of atoms as well there's not going to be a shortcut to that, at least in the foreseeable future. Those are areas that are pretty safe from just getting swarmed by whatever…”
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Hassabis: Frontier model capabilities reach tiny edge models within 6-12 months
“But I think for now there's the assumption we make is that, you know, a year later after one of our leading, you know, pro models or frontier models goes out half a year later, you'll have them in the,
The really tiny, almost edge models.”
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Hassabis: Next few years of AI advances will come from RL and search
“And I think a lot of those ideas, both from AlphaGo and AlphaZero are really, really relevant to where we are with today's foundation models. And I think a lot of that is what we're going to see of the advances the next few years.”
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Hassabis: Chip manufacturing will bottleneck AI inference for decades
“Certainly the energy, if we solve fusion or, you know, superconductors or, you know, optimal batteries or some set of those things, which I think we will do with material science, energy costs will be essentially zero, but there'll still be the physical creati…”