Comment by Demis Hassabis

Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind
Yeah, I think those systems would be right on the boundary. So I think most emergent systems, cellular automata, things like that could be model-able by a classical system. You just sort of do a forward simulation of it and it’d probably be efficient enough. Of course there’s the question of things like chaotic systems where the initial conditions really matter and then you get to some uncorrelated end state. Now those could be difficult to model. So I think these are kind of the open questions, but I think when you step back and look at what we’ve done with the systems and the problems that we’ve solved, and then you look at things like Veo 3 on video generation sort of rendering physics and lighting and things like that, really core fundamental things in physics, it’s pretty interesting. I think it’s telling us something quite fundamental about how the universe is structured in my opinion. So in a way that’s what I want to build AGI for is to help us as scientists answer these questions like P equals NP. AI Unverifiable source (2025)
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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) from Lex Fridman Podcast #475 transcript (July 2025) "Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games". WebFetch on lexfridman.com source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms the interview exists at that exact URL and covers cellular automata, Veo 3 video generation rendering physics/lighting, and Hassabis's pro-AGI motivation to "answer these questions like P equals NP". Year was null; I updated it to 2025 (Lex's tweet promoting the episode is from July 24, 2025). Vote "for" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Hassabis's explicit statement "that's what I want to build AGI for". Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 9d ago
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