Demis Hassabis

And then I think, you know, we're starting to get towards what I would call a world model, a model of how the world works, the mechanics of the world, the physics of the world and the things in that world.

And of course, that's what you would need for a true AGI system.

What do you think that looks like?

Well, games were my first love, really.

And doing AI for games was the first thing I did professionally in my teenage years and was the first major AI systems that I built.

And I always want to have I want to scratch that itch one day and come back to that.

So, you know, and I will do, I think.

And I think I sort of dream about, you know, what would I have done back in the 90s if I'd had access to the kind of AI systems we have today?

And I think you could build absolutely mind blowing games.

And I think the next stage is I always used to love making all the games I've made are open world games.

So they're games where there's a simulation and then there's AI characters and then the player interacts with that simulation and the simulation adapts to the way the player plays.

And I always thought they were the coolest games because so games like Theme Park that I worked on where everybody's game experience would be unique to them.

Because you're kind of co-creating the game.

We set up the parameters, we set up initial conditions, and then you as the player are immersed in it, and then you are co-creating it with the simulation.

But of course, it's very hard to program open world games.

You've got to be able to create content, whichever direction the player goes in, and you want it to be compelling, no matter what the player chooses.

And so it was always quite difficult to build things like cellular automata, actually type of those kinds of classical systems, which created some emergent behavior.

But they're always a little bit fragile, a little bit limited.

Now we're maybe on the cusp in the next few years, five, 10 years of having AI systems that can truly create around your imagination.

can sort of dynamically change the story and storytell the narrative around and make it dramatic no matter what you end up choosing.