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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Appearances
What is their purpose?
He has been thinking about thinking since he was a little kid, which we'll get into.
And so as the author Sebastian spends more and more time with him, he understands the power of stories on the effect of not only how Demas views the world, but also...
Demis is a phenomenal storyteller.
I experienced this firsthand.
Demis revealed himself as an extraordinary consumer and teller of stories.
His outlook is shaped by novels and movies, and his gifts as a leader are bound up with his genius for narrating his experiences.
When he is in full flow, ideas pour out of him in a torrent.
And this is an example, and I think this is one of the best excerpts in the book.
I am first and foremost a scientist, Demis began.
My goal is to understand nature, but doing science is sort of like reading the mind of God.
We humans have these faculties.
The world is understandable, but why should it be that way?
I think there's a reason.
Computers are just bits of sand and copper.
Why should these combine to do anything?
I mean, it's absurd.
The electrons move around and then that creates an AI system that can defeat a Go master?
Why should that be possible?
This is beyond evolutionary coincidence.
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