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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His entire life he was preparing for this.
He just loves competition.
Demis was in his element.
The greatest tournament of his career was just getting started.
Everything is competitive and competition brings this mad rush, Demis said.
I've always got this in the back of my mind.
And he's just describing this time in his life.
It's been a hard year.
It's partly because everyone knows now would have known for 20 years or more that AI is the most important thing ever.
Venture capitalists are funding anything that moves.
Mid-level engineers are getting offers to do startups, even though they're not suited to running a company.
You've got the biggest titans, the most ambitious, most ferocious, most aggressive people in the world crowding into the sector.
DeepMind embraced a strict unity.
All team members poured their energies into improving one single model.
Next, they embraced meritocracy.
Any team member was welcome to propose an improvement to the model and test it.
If the upgrade boosted performance, it was added to the master code on which everyone was building.
Seniority, force of personality, dazzling theoretical claims as to why something should work, none of that affected what went into the program.
Only measurement mattered.
And so since Demis is running all of Google's AI, he says, the project is so big that I don't code anymore.
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