Demis Hassabis
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3,420 appearances
27 recordings
18 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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Prestigious figures in the field assumed that a research team with no revenues would do interesting science for a couple years and then they would go out of business.
and Demis is just completely undeterred.
This is very fascinating how they recruit some of the first employees to DeepMind.
This is a scientific challenge.
As scientific startups, you need blue sky thinkers who wander into the unknown.
We only wanted hardcore believers.
We would go to these conferences and tell people, we're starting an AGI company.
80% of the people would roll their eyes at us, literally roll their eyes at us and turn around and walk away.
We figured that this was a very efficient way to discover who we should be talking to.
And they also had a really interesting pitch to recruits.
It was this.
The culture of academia could be both boringly cautious and terrifyingly competitive.
Boring because it pursued incremental advances.
Terrifying because scientists cut each other's throats to be the first to publish.
At DeepMind, we're promising the opposite experience.
The thrilling pursuit of the big leap and the near absence of rivals.
We are going to do stuff where there's no competition because no one thinks it's possible.
Blessed are those who believed before there was any evidence.
And so one of the first things they do, I think this is really important.
The fact that this to me is really the power of biography because you see that you see the evolution of their thinking and their behavior over time.
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