Demis Hassabis

I think there's a reason.

Computers are just bits of sand and copper.

Why should these combine to do anything?

I mean, it's absurd.

The electrons move around and then that creates an AI system that can defeat a Go master?

Why should that be possible?

This is beyond evolutionary coincidence.

We can build electron microscopes and interrogate reality down to the most minute level.

We can build systems that detect black holes colliding from more than a billion years ago.

I mean, what is this?

What the hell is going on here?

I sit at my desk at 2 a.m., and I feel like reality is staring at me, screaming at me, literally screaming at me, trying to tell me something if I could just listen hard enough.

That's how I feel every day.

So you can see why I'm trying to build AI.

I've felt that since I was very young, that there's a deep, deep mystery about what's going on here.

You can frame it however you want.

You can call this God's design, or you can say it's just nature.

I'm open-minded about the description, and I don't know what the answers will turn out to be.

at the moment we don't really know what time is or gravity is or any of these things so there is a mystery waiting to be solved and it encompasses just about everything i would like to understand and then i'm perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil

That's just incredible.