Demis Hassabis on Y Combinator Startup Podcast
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
A solid, startup-oriented conversation, but the AGI timeline and missing-capabilities discussion substantially repeat recent appearances. Worth sampling for the creative-tools speculation and advice on planning a deep-tech journey around possible AGI, rather than hearing end to end.
Then the answer would be there's nothing missing. It just was the way we were using the systems. And that might actually be the answer. It might be that today systems are capable of that. With a brilliant enough creative person using it and providing that impetus that the soul of the project and being able to probably being au fait enough with the tools to like almost be at one with the tools. I could imagine that would be happening if you experimented with the tools all day and all night, like probably many of you are doing that and you combine that with proper deep creativity, something more incredible could be done.
Demis Hassabis discusses the remaining technical challenges on the path to AGI, especially continual learning, memory, reasoning, and agentic behavior. He also reflects on creativity, persistence, and the importance of choosing deep, consequential problems that can withstand major advances in AI.