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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Some guessed a few thousand.
Others guessed tens of thousands.
To be safe, the company readied enough server capacity for 100,000 users.
Within five days, they collected a million users.
Within two months, it had amassed an astonishing 100 million users.
making it the fastest growing consumer application ever.
This is Demis's response.
And again, he is pathological.
The way he was described in the book by somebody else is pathologically competitive.
At the end of April 2023, I visited Demis and asked how he was feeling.
This is wartime, he answered.
OpenA and Microsoft have literally parked the tanks on the lawn.
And so Demas also spends time thinking about the motivations of the people that he's competing with.
And I think this is really important.
I think Steve Jobs put it best.
Steve said, the older I get, the more I'm convinced that motives make so much difference.
Steve would use HP as his North Star example, that their primary goal back when the founders were running it, obviously, that their primary goal was to make great products, not be the biggest or the richest.
And that distinction to Jobs wasn't cosmetic.
It was foundational.
And so Demas is talking about Sam Altman.
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