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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And then one thing that Demis has in common with most of history's greatest entrepreneurs is like when you do something great, you don't sleep on the wind.
You don't rest on the laurels.
You just go and do something else.
It says when Demis solves something big, he doesn't pause to spend much time savoring the achievement.
And so Demis talks about the fact that he's unreasonable, that he's always pushing for more.
There's people inside the company actually talk about the fact that he's never satisfied.
They always wants more.
They have this great line, this great line about they call Demis driven development.
At DeepMind, we have something called Demis driven development.
If a review meeting with Demis has been scheduled for Tuesday, you were urged to complete the next round of upgrades by Monday.
No matter how many upgrades arrive, Demis wants more of them.
And so something that Demis would repeat way a decade, more than a decade before he actually had proof of this, is the fact that he really believed that AI could offer scientific miracles.
And he talks about the fact that belief comes before ability.
He says you definitely can't crack a hard problem if the person leading the team thinks it's not possible.
And so one example of what the miracles that AI could offer is what they did with AlphaFold.
Hundreds of academic scientists had spent decades on protein folding.
How was it that the DeepMinds team, numbering perhaps 20 at its peak, had defeated all of them?
And so then the book gets into the invention of ChatGPT, and this is where Demis realizes he's in a fight for his life.
This is war.
It says, the night before ChatGPT's release, OpenAI's team placed bets on how many people might try the tool by the end of the weekend.
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