Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Official DeepMind; slow to update but all firsthand research
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Latest2026-10-01
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44:24Google DeepMind: The Podcast
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AI Predicted a Category 5 Hurricane a Week Out, Using Statistics, Not Physics
Classical numerical forecasting solves fluid equations; AI learns statistical patterns from historical weather. Hurricane Melissa was locked in as a Category 5 while still a tropical depression, at roughly 80% confidence — earlier and more decisively than conventional models.
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AI weather predictionDeepMind
44:40Google DeepMind: The Podcast
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AI's next step isn't bigger models, it's learning to admit uncertainty
DeepMind researcher Zubin draws on 30 years of research to show that today's large models make things up confidently because they lack any explicit representation of probability; Bayesian updating, forecast ensembles and calibration are what reliable AI and AGI actually turn on.
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UncertaintyBayesian methods