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Demis Hassabis on Curing Diseases with AI, Proactive Agents, AI Relationships, and more
May 27, 2025 · 13 min · 9.9 MB
0:00-13:45
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Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:
-How AI could cure all diseases
-Advice to the education system
-Relationships and reliance on AI
-Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?
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- 0:00Top 3 Google I/O announcements
- 0:51Proactive agents - Helpful vs. Intrusive
- 2:00Cross-device Gemini memory
- 2:37AI relationships after infinite memory
- 3:54Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?
- 5:30Advice to the education system
- 6:47Developers in the 'vibe-coding' era
- 9:03What's the moat for startups?
- 11:10How AI could cure all diseases