What Demis Hassabis thinks about robotics

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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23 Jul 2025

Our readingIntuitive physics can be learned from passive observation alone, so an embodied robot is not required to understand the physical world.

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Their wordsBut it seems like you can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me. And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.

↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording