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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A machine that can navigate an infinity of data would be infinite in its reach.
Let's go back to this idea that his ability to think for himself, to forge his own path.
You see it when he was a kid.
You see it in college.
He's still like this to this day.
Towards the end of his time at Cambridge, he had confided to his friends that to pursue his dream of building AI, he planned to found a company.
It was a shocking idea.
Entrepreneurship was a foreign concept on the Cambridge campus.
Britain had no equivalent to Silicon Valley.
If you'd looked at the students and asked who's going to set up a company, the answer would have been nobody.
Demis was the exception.
He saw no reason not to start a company, so he did.
And he talks about this.
I'm not going to sit around wondering what might have been.
You only get one life, he said.
That part reminded me that Steve Jobs' mentor, who's the founder of Atari, observed that Steve Jobs only had one speed, that a young Steve Jobs only had one speed, and that speed was go.
Demis is the same way.
And so he's going to start his first company.
This is where his charisma, his persuasion, his ability to articulate his ideas, his passion all come into play.
His powers of persuasion were uncanny.
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