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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So he's like this one-year gap.
And so he's going to work out the best gaming studio in Europe.
It's called Bullfrog.
And the way he gets there is he read these gaming magazines that had an ad where saying if you win this competition to create this game, the prize was a job at Bullfrog.
And so this is a description of the environment there and some of his coworkers.
Demas was fascinated by the other Bullfrog employees, technically talented, self-made young men, many of whom had dropped out of high school, being too idiosyncratically gifted or plain wild to sit meekly in a classroom.
The line between working and philosophizing blurred.
We were brainstorming these big ideas.
There was this thrill of unbridled creation.
And so the founder of Bullfrog is this guy named Peter Molyneux, and he gives Demis a life-changing book.
The book is called Godel, Escher, and Bach.
And then the way the book is described in this book, it says, it was a firehose of a book that inspired a remarkable number of future AI scientists.
As a chess prodigy, Demis had long been curious about the workings of his own mind.
How did his brain formulate moves?
Why did it make mistakes?
And what was behind this phenomenon called thinking?
The author of the book attacked these questions as a physicist, insisting that human intelligence and computer intelligence are virtually indistinguishable.
And so he's around 16 years old at the time.
He was living away from his parents, surrounded by rebels who love to dream about AI under the watch of a mentor who encouraged these passions.
We were discussing AI all the time, Demas recalled.
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