Demis Hassabis

Well, you can because you can get to the point where you're deluding your team and then they are deluding you also.

It's like I'm making this judgment that this is possible because the engineers are telling me it's possible, but they're only telling me it's possible because I've over-inspired them, Demis said.

So in fact, none of us were getting real feedback.

his co-founder talks about on how to communicate and debate and really just persuade Demas.

You had to push the conversation to the point where he got more and more intense and defended his positions more and more strongly.

The stronger he got, the closer you were.

Then eventually he might go quiet.

That's when he absorbed the message.

And so after this, he's thinking about what to do.

This is right before he found DeepMind.

And the author does a great job of describing, again, just how he's learning from everything and how all these experiences fit together.

I marveled how Demis' experience and ideas appear to slot together.

His curiosity about physics has spurred him to work on AI, the ultimate tool to unlock science.

His curiosity about AI had led him to investigate the human brain.

the existence proof for intelligence.

His work on simulations and video games echoed his research on simulations in the mind and the influences of Immanuel Kant, of that book, Godel, Escher and Bach, and neuroscience had pushed Demis towards the same bottom line, that information was the fundamental unit of reality.

A futuristic computer, a powerful AI, might be limitless.

Infinite.

And so there is all kinds of interesting characters in this book.

I'm going to focus mainly on Demis.