Demis Hassabis
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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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Thiel then invites Demis and his co-founder over to his house the next day to explain their ambitious venture.
When they do so, says Thiel began to think this project was an A-plus on the science and maybe an F on the business model.
But he had also had a further thought.
Demis was an extreme case of an authentic entrepreneur, not a mercenary who starts with a desire to get rich from a startup, then casts around for a plausible idea, but rather a missionary who feels compelled to work on a particular challenge, then starts a company as a way of tackling it.
The good thing about missionaries is that they never quit.
Even if they have to work around the clock and pay themselves nothing, they will keep obsessing about the problem.
I always say that people aren't really entrepreneurs in the abstract, but there's maybe one great company that somebody has in them, Peter said.
It was Demis' destiny to build this one.
And so he's raising money from Peter Thiel.
They build this business plan, this deck of DeepMind.
There's just a couple of things I want to pull out from this business plan, from this deck that I thought was interesting.
In the deck, it has a quote from Bill Gates.
Remember the idea for an AI company is ridiculous at this time.
This is the quote.
If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence so machines can learn, that would be worth 10 Microsofts.
And then it lays out what they're trying to do.
As the business plan explained, the human brain had limited storage capacity and humans had limited lifespans.
Grouping humans together resulted in diminishing returns because big organizations are sluggish.
In sum, the intricacy of society's most pressing challenges lay beyond the reach of human capabilities.
AGI is the solution to this problem.
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