Demis Hassabis
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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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And so his vision of the future is to use AI to solve every single scientific problem that plagues humanity.
It is a very optimistic vision.
That's why I wanted to include that excerpt at the very beginning of this episode.
The optimistic vision of AI discovery has history in its corner.
Past innovations from gunpowder to nuclear fission have made wars more terrifying and accidents more lethal.
But the general effect on technological change has been to amplify our experiences and extend our lifespans.
And the very act of creating new technologies is intrinsic to being human.
And so it gives some of the examples of the accomplishments that DeepMind had in earlier in their history.
In 2016, DeepMind solved a grand challenge in computer science, creating a system that surpassed the intuitive brilliance of the world's best players of the ancient board game Go.
There's a great documentary that you can watch on YouTube.
It is about Demis and DeepMind and some of their accomplishments.
It's called The Thinking Game.
So back to this.
In 2020, DeepMind solved a second grand challenge in biochemistry, stitching together 32 algorithms to define the shape of nearly all the proteins in nature.
This was the breakthrough for which Demis shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
So in 2024, Demis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein structure prediction.
Still in the introduction, the author gives an overview of some of the unique characteristics that Demis has.
He stands for a type, the missionary entrepreneur and the out-of-the-box scientist who, through brilliance and extraordinary drive, emerges as the right person for a particular moment.
But at a deeper level, Demas provides a window on life's external enigmas.
What drives people to act?
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