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's when he absorbed the message.
And so after this, he's thinking about what to do.
This is right before he found DeepMind.
And the author does a great job of describing, again, just how he's learning from everything and how all these experiences fit together.
I marveled how Demis' experience and ideas appear to slot together.
His curiosity about physics has spurred him to work on AI, the ultimate tool to unlock science.
His curiosity about AI had led him to investigate the human brain.
the existence proof for intelligence.
His work on simulations and video games echoed his research on simulations in the mind and the influences of Immanuel Kant, of that book, Godel, Escher and Bach, and neuroscience had pushed Demis towards the same bottom line, that information was the fundamental unit of reality.
A futuristic computer, a powerful AI, might be limitless.
Infinite.
And so there is all kinds of interesting characters in this book.
I'm going to focus mainly on Demis.
Considering how important AI is becoming in our world, I would highly recommend reading the book.
There is a lot of fascinating stories about how they actually built the technology that are in the book that I think you should read.
And then Demis is constantly interacting with and his stories, you know, weaving in and out of all these other phenomenal entrepreneurs and well-known investors.
The first one is Peter Thiel.
Demis needs money for DeepMind, so he finds a way to pitch Peter Thiel.
They're at this party at a conference that says instead of pitching Peter Thiel with yet another startup story and doing so in the middle of a crowded party, Demis hooked Thiel with chess.
So he starts talking about chess with Peter because he knew that Peter was obsessed with chess.
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