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 tournament had been packed with brilliant brains dueling over a board game until stamina was drained to nothing.
Surely that immense collective mental effort should have been harnessed to some higher cause, say science or medicine.
I thought we were wasting our minds.
And so right there and then he resolved that there must be something more.
There must be a mission, a purpose.
And so something you'll see throughout his life is that all these experiences that he has, all the things that he is learning, they fit together almost like a puzzle.
So he discovers this book that's called The Chess Computer Handbook.
It's written by this guy named David Levy.
And it says Levy introduced Demas to the themes that would animate his lifelong quest to build artificial intelligence.
The marriage of computing and chess united Demas' two worlds.
He read the book in one sitting.
Twelve-year-old Demas sets out applying Levy's principles.
He built a computer program to play a simpler game, the game Othello.
The program proved intelligent enough to beat Demas' little brother.
This is what Demas said about it.
It was amazing that I made something that could beat him.
And so Demas gets introduced to AI through gaming.
He's reading all these gaming magazines.
At this point, he's 16 years old.
He gets into Cambridge, but they're saying he's too young to attend.
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