DeepMind: The Podcast

Episodes

• From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AILearn how invisible, mathematical watermarks help trace AI provenance, protect against misuse, and safeguard protein sequence design without impacting biological function. Timecodes: 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/ 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• Can AI help us better predict the weather?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. 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• The mathematics of AI uncertaintyNow, 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? Timecodes: • 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• Understanding the inner thoughts of AINeel 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/ Timecodes • 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• When millions of AI agents meetTimecodes: • 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• 10 Years of AlphaGo: The Turning Point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet KohliSeoul, 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. 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• The Future of Intelligence with Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)Thanks for joining us this year. 🔔 Subscribe to stay updated on our return in 2026, and revisit our episode library to catch up on everything from driverless cars to drug discovery: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZBiUr6_Qf8YTS2Oqy3OGZEj 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)Further reading 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John JumperLearn more about AlphaFold: https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/ 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent VanhouckeLearn more about Waymo: https://waymo.com/ 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 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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