Rowan's Notes
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Rowan's Notes
Demis Hassabis on Curing Diseases with AI, Proactive Agents, AI Relationships, and more
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Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:
-How AI could cure all diseases
-Advice to the education system
-Relationships and reliance on AI
-Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?
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Top 3 Google I/O announcements
Proactive agents - Helpful vs. Intrusive
Cross-device Gemini memory
AI relationships after infinite memory
Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?
Advice to the education system
Developers in the 'vibe-coding' era
What's the moat for startups?
How AI could cure all diseases