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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From Demis' perspective, the advantages of the sale were overwhelming.
And so in the documentary, The Thinking Game, he talks about this.
He says, our investors didn't want to sell, but we decided this was the best thing for the mission.
We were underselling in terms of value before it matured, and you could have sold DeepMind for more money in the future.
The reason is because there's no time to waste.
There are so many things that have to be done while I'm still alive and my brain is still in gear.
And then he has a very compelling argument for this.
How many billions...
Would you trade for another five years of life to do what you set out to do?
And so one of the things that they're working on is they want to build AlphaGo.
They want to build a system that would defeat a world champion at Go.
This exchange between Demis and Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, says a lot about Demis' ambition.
Demis told Sergey that he wanted to build a computer that would defeat the world champion at Go.
Brin seemed incredulous.
Wouldn't that be impossible?
Great, Demis thought to himself.
If he thinks it's impossible, it should be pretty impressive if we do it.
Now,
There is a lot of detail in the book and in the documentary about how they do this.
But what jumped out to me is one of the most interesting reoccurring themes in the book was this idea of using AI to come up with ideas or strategies or moves that aren't human-like.
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