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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Learning only from self-play, the system outclassed its predecessor by a mile.
By unshackling itself from human wisdom, the model had discovered strategies unknown to mortal players, arriving at a new understanding of Go's mysteries.
Humans had not understood how little they had understood.
AI stood in judgment over centuries of human wisdom, vindicating some verdicts and tossing out others.
And then some of my favorite parts of the book is just you can just tell that he believes that this is like his fate.
This is his destiny.
Before I read this excerpt from Demis T, which I found fascinating, there was an interesting few sentences from Peter Thiel.
And he's talking about Demis.
He says, geniuses are seldom brilliant in a general way.
They tend to be brilliantly suited to a particular mission.
My friend Daniel Eck was the founder of Spotify.
He calls this founder problem fit.
I think it's a really interesting idea.
Let's go back to this idea that Demis, you could just tell he believes this is fate.
This is destiny.
He's got a beautiful way of explaining himself.
The way AI has developed is a bit like the Industrial Revolution.
It developed in a certain way, but that was kind of lucky.
Suppose at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we had found out about energy and engines, but then imagine that there were no coal or oil in the ground.
After all, there didn't have to be.
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