Demis Hassabis
speaker
3,420 appearances
27 recordings
18 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Demis Hassabis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He is phenomenally articulate.
And one of the things that is obvious if you read the book and one of the things that jumped out when you study him is he is a missionary.
It's one of the things I most admire about him.
He has been talking about this mission for a decade and a half before it has basically consumed our entire world.
And so the introduction pulls out some of these ideas that he's been repeating for a very long time.
Intelligence is fundamental.
It is the root of all else.
It is the mechanism through which humans perceive reality.
It's the mind that creates our reality around us, Demis said.
Richard Feynman said, what I cannot build, I do not understand.
Following Feynman's dictum, in order to grasp human intelligence, scientists would have to build an artificial analog, a machine that mimicked human thinking.
This next sentence is very important.
AI's practical or profit-making potential was a secondary concern.
Damas was delivering this sort of talk repeatedly at tech gatherings in the 2010s.
The boyish philosopher on stage was clearly not a stereotypical entrepreneur peddling a hot app that promised untold riches.
And then if you think about that excerpt that appears at the end of the book that he's like, you know, I'm this weird British outlier and I'm just trying to follow my own path and following my passions and staying true to what I believe in.
Founding a company to build AGI back in 2010 was viewed by others as ridiculous, as laughable.
When they founded DeepMind in 2010, fellow scientists had rolled their eyes, believing the construction of human-like AI to be impossible.
Almost every potential investor had turned them away.
But Demis had nonetheless scrapped together funding and persuaded gifted researchers to join him, all on the strength of his exhilarating vision.
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