Demis Hassabis

And then once the team was assembled, Demis had shown exquisite judgment.

and all the while he's preaching his vision, his mission.

The way Demis saw things, true general intelligence would make almost anything possible, surpassing the internet, the printing press, or even the industrial revolution in importance.

But he has that combination of grand ambition and pragmatism.

His schedule captured the two sides of Demis' persona.

When he stayed awake into the small hours of the morning, reading and thinking and dreaming, he reveled in his maximalist ambition.

So his schedule was something like at 10 p.m.

till like 4 in the morning.

That's when he's doing this.

And he goes to sleep for a few hours and he goes to the office.

When he goes to the office, it says when he arrived at the office the next day, he focused on getting to the next rung of the ladder.

Again, this combination of grand ambition and pragmatism.

Now, there's a bunch of other characters in the book, some of the most successful and wealthiest people in the world.

Elon Musk is in all over this book.

Larry Page, obviously founder of Google, buys DeepMind all over this book.

And so there's a ton of interesting stories and anecdotes in the book.

I just want to pull out one of them.

Luke Nosek was the investor at Founders Fund that wanted to make the DeepMind investment.

So Luke Nosek flew back to California on Elon's private jet accompanied by Larry Page.

The conversation on the flight turned to AI.