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Watch: Google DeepMind CEO and AI Nobel winner Demis Hassabis on CBS’ ’60 Minutes’


The segment ended with a meditation on the future: a world where AI tools could transform almost every human endeavor.

Two years after a prior 60 Minutes interview heralded the chatbot era, Hassabis and DeepMind are now pursuing more capable systems designed not only to understand language, but also the physical world around them. The segment featured robots completing tasks with vague instructions—like identifying a green block formed by mixing yellow and blue—suggesting rising reasoning abilities in physical systems. The segment ended with a meditation on the future: a world where AI tools could transform almost every human endeavor—and eventually reshape how we think about knowledge, consciousness, and even the meaning of life.

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