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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I don't design things directly.
So my skills are more about holding a hundred different projects in my mind.
Context switching between complicated things with negative minutes of time between.
Laying out division.
Picking the right intermediate targets on the way to the big goal and nurturing people to take things on.
The word I'm using the most is relentless.
Relentless progress.
Relentless shipping.
A relentless production machine for innovation.
Less than two years after the messy shotgun marriage that created Google DeepMind, Demis' team had closed the technical gap.
It was a considerable achievement.
And so they talk about where they see this going.
Humans are forever conceiving long-term objectives and planning what they need to do next week and next month in order to realize them.
Future AIs would behave in the same way.
Tasked, for example, to help solve energy scarcity by inventing a superconductor, an AI might draw up a reading list, conduct experiments, invent novel materials, and so on, pursuing its goal over the space of a year or more.
And it all goes back to the fact that Demas is a missionary, that he's on a mission, and that he's very clear about what his motives are.
I'm doing this for knowledge and science.
This is my whole life's work.
I have to do what's necessary.
The mission is in me.
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