Demis Hassabis

So I think he would have been, I imagine, fascinated by where we are now.

I agree with that.

I think we need to approach it with whatever you want to call it, a spiritual dimension or humanist dimension.

It doesn't have to be to do with religion, but this idea of a soul, what makes us human, this spark that we have, perhaps it's to do with consciousness when we finally understand that.

I think that has to be at the heart of the endeavor.

And technology, I've always seen technology as the enabler, right?

The tools that enable us to flourish and to understand more about the world.

And I'm sort of with Feynman on this, and he used to always talk about science and art being companions, right?

You can understand it from both sides, the beauty of a flower, how beautiful it is, and also understand why the colors of the flower evolved like that.

That just makes it more beautiful, just the intrinsic beauty of the flower.

And I've always sort of seen it like that.

And maybe, you know, in the Renaissance times, the great discoverers then, like people like Da Vinci, you know, I don't think he saw any difference between science and art and perhaps religion, right?

Everything is just part of being human.

and being inspired about the world around us.

That's the philosophy I try to take.

One of my favorite philosophers is Spinoza.

I think he combined that all very well, this idea of trying to understand the universe and understanding our place in it.

That was his way of understanding religion.

I think that's quite beautiful.

For me, all of these things are related, interrelated, the technology and what it means to be human.