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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That is his most defining characteristic.
Just unbelievable determination.
He works, sleeps, eats, breathes the mission 24 hours a day to a degree that I haven't seen with other people.
And he's asked to follow up.
No hobbies?
Football.
He's a big fan of Liverpool.
But other than that, it's the mission.
Another follow-up question.
That was evident even when you met him more than a decade ago?
Always.
Demis tells a story about his father saying, whether you win or lose, the really important thing is that you try your best.
Demis says that he took that very literally, as in absolutely try the absolute, absolute, absolute best you can possibly do, pretty much to the point of breaking yourself.
That's how he is 24-7.
I don't think his father meant his comment in quite the literal sense.
Try your best wasn't supposed to mean try literally to the point of destroying yourself.
Go absolutely completely 100%.
But that's how Demis understood it.
There is no 50% mode in Demis.
There's not even a 99% mode in Demis.
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