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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Perhaps more audaciously, DeepMind asserted that its ultra-ambitious conception of AI made progress more likely.
Other AI research sought to maximize the chances of success by focusing on narrow tasks.
training a system to recognize images, for example.
In contrast, DeepMind was out to build agents, not merely systems.
The difference was that agents would be more general and proactive.
Rather than being engineered by humans to master a single finite task, agents would learn broadly and autonomously, mastering a wide range of problems as they interacted with their environment.
The jump in complexity was vast.
Rather than building the digital equivalent of a house, DeepMind aspired to build a city.
And so Demis and one of his co-founders, there's three co-founders, it's Demis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleiman.
And so Demis and Mustafa are out trying to raise money.
There's just so many bizarre stories in the book.
I've heard so many investor horror stories from founders, most of which are not repeated publicly, unfortunately.
Let's just say there's just a lot of creeps and weirdos out there.
So when I got to this section, my note was very simple.
WTF.
It says, in September 2010, Demis and Mustafa appeared before a strange kind of investment committee.
David Gammon declared himself ready to commit capital, but he'd only go forward if DeepMind did things his way.
Entrepreneurs seeking his support were required to visit his home and pitch to Gammon, his wife, and his three teenage sons.
Each family member would get an equal say on whether to invest.
I said to Demis, if you can't explain this to my younger son, you're not going to get his vote.
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