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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till like 4 in the morning.
That's when he's doing this.
And he goes to sleep for a few hours and he goes to the office.
When he goes to the office, it says when he arrived at the office the next day, he focused on getting to the next rung of the ladder.
Again, this combination of grand ambition and pragmatism.
Now, there's a bunch of other characters in the book, some of the most successful and wealthiest people in the world.
Elon Musk is in all over this book.
Larry Page, obviously founder of Google, buys DeepMind all over this book.
And so there's a ton of interesting stories and anecdotes in the book.
I just want to pull out one of them.
Luke Nosek was the investor at Founders Fund that wanted to make the DeepMind investment.
So Luke Nosek flew back to California on Elon's private jet accompanied by Larry Page.
The conversation on the flight turned to AI.
Demis had visited Elon at SpaceX.
Elon and Demis had discussed which mission mattered most, space travel or developing AGI.
Elon had declared that humans needed to colonize Mars in case disaster struck Earth.
Demis had countered that killer AI robots might be one such disaster, but that the AI could obviously follow humans to Mars if it wanted to.
The two men had forged a competitive friendship and Elon had decided that Demis was right.
Powerful artificial intelligence might indeed be more consequential than space flight.
Elon promised to invest in DeepMind.
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