Demis Hassabis

And I think I'm like you, it's like a lot of people love all of the stand-up comedians and that actually captures a lot of human dynamics very well and body language.

But actually the thing I'm most impressed with and fascinated by is the physics behavior, the lighting and materials and liquids.

And it's pretty amazing that it can do that.

And I think that shows that it has some notion of at least intuitive physics, right?

How things are supposed to work intuitively, maybe the way that a human child would understand physics, right?

As opposed to, you know, a PhD student really being able to unpack all the equations.

It's more of an intuitive physics understanding.

Yes.

And it's very interesting, you know, even if you were to ask me five, ten years ago, I would have said, even though I was immersed in all of this, I would have said, well, yeah, you probably need to understand intuitive physics.

You know, like if I push this off the table, this glass, it will maybe shatter, you know, and the liquid will spill out.

Right.

So we know all of these things.

But I thought that, you know, and there's a lot of theories in neuroscience, it's called action in perception, where, you know, you need to act in the world to really truly perceive it in a deep way.

And there was a lot of theories about you'd need embodied intelligence or robotics or something, or maybe at least simulated action so that you would understand things like intuitive physics.

But it seems like

You can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me.

And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality, in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.

And of course, those next stages is maybe even making those videos interactive.

So one can actually step into them and move around them, which would be really mind blowing, especially given my games background.

So you can imagine.