Demis Hassabis

This is the quote.

If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence so machines can learn, that would be worth 10 Microsofts.

And then it lays out what they're trying to do.

As the business plan explained, the human brain had limited storage capacity and humans had limited lifespans.

Grouping humans together resulted in diminishing returns because big organizations are sluggish.

In sum, the intricacy of society's most pressing challenges lay beyond the reach of human capabilities.

AGI is the solution to this problem.

Perhaps more audaciously, DeepMind asserted that its ultra-ambitious conception of AI made progress more likely.

Other AI research sought to maximize the chances of success by focusing on narrow tasks.

training a system to recognize images, for example.

In contrast, DeepMind was out to build agents, not merely systems.

The difference was that agents would be more general and proactive.

Rather than being engineered by humans to master a single finite task, agents would learn broadly and autonomously, mastering a wide range of problems as they interacted with their environment.

The jump in complexity was vast.

Rather than building the digital equivalent of a house, DeepMind aspired to build a city.

And so Demis and one of his co-founders, there's three co-founders, it's Demis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleiman.

And so Demis and Mustafa are out trying to raise money.

There's just so many bizarre stories in the book.

I've heard so many investor horror stories from founders, most of which are not repeated publicly, unfortunately.

Let's just say there's just a lot of creeps and weirdos out there.