DeepMind Explores the Mathematics of AI Uncertainty and AGI Future
Google DeepMind · youtube · 2026-08-26
Google DeepMind released an interview with Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor at Cambridge and VP of Research at Google DeepMind, who has spent 30 years pioneering intelligence built on the mathematics of uncertainty. The discussion covers the role of uncertainty in AI, the distinction between correctness and confidence, historical perspectives, Bayesian thinking in AI, real-world applications, and whether improving machine uncertainty is a missing piece for advancing AGI.
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
Related event: DeepMind VP Highlights Handling Uncertainty as Key to AI(2 posts)→
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