Demis Hassabis

Elon and Sam Altman team up to launch OpenAI, a not-for-profit lab explicitly aimed at breaking the Google DeepMind AGI monopoly.

Demis said, if you have powerful people who are able to understand the impact of the technology, they're not just going to sit on the sidelines.

They won't be content to just be your advisors.

So obviously what was going on was our supposed advisors were really our rivals, right?

And so then when I go back to this idea of using AI to generate this alien, like non-human ideas, they continue to improve AlphaGo.

Now they have this idea called AlphaGo Zero.

The idea is that rather than training the agent initially in expert human games, it would have to learn exclusively by playing against itself, by experimenting with random moves and discovering which ones generated a reward signal.

Learning only from self-play, the system outclassed its predecessor by a mile.

By unshackling itself from human wisdom, the model had discovered strategies unknown to mortal players, arriving at a new understanding of Go's mysteries.

Humans had not understood how little they had understood.

AI stood in judgment over centuries of human wisdom, vindicating some verdicts and tossing out others.

And then some of my favorite parts of the book is just you can just tell that he believes that this is like his fate.

This is his destiny.

Before I read this excerpt from Demis T, which I found fascinating, there was an interesting few sentences from Peter Thiel.

And he's talking about Demis.

He says, geniuses are seldom brilliant in a general way.

They tend to be brilliantly suited to a particular mission.

My friend Daniel Eck was the founder of Spotify.

He calls this founder problem fit.

I think it's a really interesting idea.