Sir Demis Hassabis returns to Cambridge to offer insights into the future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The Queens' College alumnus gave a lecture about how the AI tools Google DeepMind is developing have the capacity to greatly speed up discoveries in areas of science from health to the environment, and more. Watch Sir Demis' full talk via the link in our bio 🔗 #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Coding #FutureTech #NobelPrize #CambridgeAlumni

What do you think about the speed at which artificial intelligence is developing and its effects on economic developments? There are a lot of people out there who are deciding careers right now who, given the rapid change in the landscape, make it really difficult to predict what they should go into. It's a very complicated one because, as you say, things are changing at a lightening speed. We were just discussing it with Alistair earlier. Even designing three-year computer science courses is quite difficult, given that there are underlying material changes in less than three years. I think the only thing we can say for sure is there's going to be a lot of change, but I think that brings with it disruption and opportunity. I'll just give you an example on coding, which I don't know if you're a computer scientist. I still would recommend that you get good at coding and math because I think you'll be able to use these new tools in a much deeper way if you have an understanding of how they're built. But on the other hand, I think coding is going to be more available to many, many more types of people because of the way that you'll be able to program in a natural language, probably, rather than a quite complicated computer language. That will open up fields for creative people to build games, make films, make applications. Maybe the balance of that is more on the creative side than it is on the engineering side. But I also think that will enhance engineers to be able to do 10x of what they can do today. I think it's difficult to know. But what I would say is just to focus on embracing those tools in your spare time and training yourself to be really good at picking up new information extremely quickly because I think that's basically what's going to happen in the next 10 years.