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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How could it help the games?
What would it take to build it?
At the same time, Demas was inhaling science fiction.
He was reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and Ian Banks' Culture series.
and this is how all these experiences came together.
Demis' experience at Bullfrog answered his big question.
His mission and purpose would be to build artificial intelligence.
Molyneux and the book that he gave him had planted the idea that computers would soon do whatever the brain could do.
Ian Banks gave him this applied utopian vision of what AI's realization could mean, boundless human flourishing.
I decided then that I was going to dedicate my career to working on AI, Demis recalled.
I had already had the kernel of the idea for what eventually became DeepMind.
And so this will give you an indication of just how special Demis was.
He quits Bullfrog because he wants to attend Cambridge.
The founder did everything possible to persuade him not to go.
He writes out a check for 500,000 pounds to get him to work on Bullfrog's next game.
Keep in mind, this is a poor 17 or 18 year old at the time.
He does not have money.
That amount of money would be 1.7 million in today's money.
And Demis refuses.
And so while at college, he's thinking about what he wants to do for his life.
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