Demis Hassabis
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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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Dead dinosaurs and ancient trees just waiting there for 60 million years, ready to be dug out?
It's kind of unreasonable if you think about it.
Why wouldn't they just decay in the ground and become useless?
Quite convenient that they didn't.
And maybe that speaks to another conversation we could have about what's really going on here.
Why would we have this coincidence?
The analogy here is the internet has been for AI what coal and oil were for the Industrial Revolution.
You could just literally drill a hole in the ground and get black gold.
Today, we can just download all of the internet.
Neither of these resources had to be there.
The dead dinosaurs are the internet.
Humanity built the internet for a different purpose.
And kind of amazingly, we woke up one day and realized that we've got the equivalent of oil.
And so you and I have talked about that Demis is fiercely independent.
He's this outlier doing things his own way.
And at certain times that could be a strength and at certain times it could be a weakness.
At this point in the story, OpenAI gets ahead of DeepMind, even though it was founded much later.
And the book goes into detail about the two different paths that they're taking at the moment.
But I think the author describes how understanding Demis's personality and his life history could have accounted for him to make this mistake.
And so he says, at some point in this period, DeepMind should have pivoted to language models, just as OpenAI did.
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