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CEO, Google DeepMind · Feb 28, 2024 · Interview, Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs

In terms of your question of large models, I think we’ve got to push scaling as hard as we can and that’s what we’re doing here.

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Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind
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Dwarkesh Podcast: Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs
Topics
Compute, Research
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DeepMind
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dwarkesh.com/p/demis-hassabis

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