Demis Hassabis

Brin seemed incredulous.

Wouldn't that be impossible?

Great, Demis thought to himself.

If he thinks it's impossible, it should be pretty impressive if we do it.

Now,

There is a lot of detail in the book and in the documentary about how they do this.

But what jumped out to me is one of the most interesting reoccurring themes in the book was this idea of using AI to come up with ideas or strategies or moves that aren't human-like.

And this progresses to the point where it's like they aren't even built on what humans have done in the past.

A lot of my highlights center around this.

I think this idea is fascinating.

And so at the beginning, it says, if you pattern match what humans do, it's not going to take you all the way to beating the top human.

The system needs to discover new moves which aren't human-like.

We need to build a machine that would search the infinity of permutations in Go and come up entirely novel strategies.

The early version of our ghost system played as a human would.

It rediscovered certain strategies that humans had learned over millennia.

Then it discovered that certain time-honored human strategies can actually be counteracted, so it discarded them.

As the system became stronger, it played like nothing we've ever seen.

It came up with a style that was completely alien.

There are so many examples in the book about this I think are very, very fascinating.

So it goes back to now we're a couple of years into this and everything with Google was going well.