Demis Hassabis

We couldn't raise any money.

And these days, interns are being paid the amount that we raised as our first entire seed round.

So it's pretty funny.

And I remember the days where I used to have to work for free and almost pay my own way to do an internship, right?

Now it's all the other way around.

But that's just how it is.

It's the new world.

But I think that we've been discussing what happens post-AGI and energy systems are solved and so on.

What is even money going to mean?

So I think, you know, in the economy and we're going to have much bigger issues to work through and how does the economy function in that world and companies.

So I think, you know, it's a little bit of a side issue about salaries and things like that today.

Well, it's interesting that programming, and it's again counterintuitive to what we thought years ago, maybe that some of the skills that we think of as harder skills are turned out maybe to be the easier ones for various reasons.

But, you know, coding and math, because you can create a lot of synthetic data and verify if that data is correct.

So because of that nature of that, it's easier to make things like synthetic data to train from.

Um, it's also an area, of course, we're all interested in because as programmers, right, to help us and get faster at it and more productive.

So I think the, for the next era, like the next five, 10 years, I think what we're going to find is people who are kind of embrace these technologies become almost at one with them.

Um, whether that's in the creative industries or the technical industries will become sort of superhumanly productive, um,

I think.

So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10x even what they are today.

And because there you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.