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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And it says, Demas recalled what Paul Graham wrote.
Paul Graham was one of Altman's closest professional mentors.
And Paul wrote,
Demis was not just furious, he was ferociously competitive.
And so this is the response to OpenAI and ChatGPT that they do.
Larry Page insisted that Google should do everything conceivable to catch up, otherwise it would be nowhere.
Demis set about preparing his troops to think differently.
He declared that DeepMind's broad portfolio of blue sky research bets would have to be pared back.
The company would stop publishing mission-critical research that competitors could copy.
It would focus on engineering and not just science.
Researchers would have to make the mental shift from peacetime to wartime.
They also planned to merge Google Brain and DeepMind.
Not even Google could afford the luxury of duplicate research teams.
They began to work on their next generation language model, which would be called Gemini.
Google would put its research, computing power, and marketing muscle behind a single chatbot.
And there's a great quote from this researcher on DeepMind.
about how valuable this time was to the company.
My view is that we probably needed to be second for a while just to light a fire under our own ass.
There's nothing like public humiliation for galvanizing action.
And then you see Demis was just built for this time.
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