If/Then: Research findings to help us navigate complex issues in business, leadership, and society
Stanford GSB
4.9from 43 ratings
- 61
- Episodes
- 59
- Transcribed
- 43
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 176M
- YouTube views
About If/Then: Research findings to help us navigate complex issues in business, leadership, and society
How do we lead with purpose, make better decisions, and navigate an uncertain future? On If/Then (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/if-then), Stanford GSB faculty break down cutting-edge research on leadership, strategy, and more, exploring enduring questions and the forces reshaping business and society today, from AI to geopolitics. Hosted by senior editor Kevin Cool.
- Publisher
- Stanford GSB
- Category
- business · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
59 of 61 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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An AI@GSB Special: Demis Hassabis Thinks We’re in the ‘Foothills of the Singularity’
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It wasn't clear it could scale up to anything major. And so we started with I would say the most famous set of most basic games that had become world popular, which were Atari games from the 70s. And we started with the simplest game of all, which was Pong. You know, the bat and the ball, just two bats and a ball. And there's an inbuilt AI system, sorry, an AI system, an inbuilt system that controls your opponent and uses all the information that the game has about where the ball is and so on to move the bat around. And what we wanted to do was could you play Pong just from the pixels on the screen, so the raw data, the raw visual input, and no other information, no privileged information about no access to the insides of the program about where the ball is or the speed of it and so on, which obviously the program knows. […]
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- Demis Hassabis
- Matt Abrahams
- Brian Lowery
- Robert MacCoun
- Douglas Guilbeault
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- YouTube views
- 175,733,460
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 31 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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