Demis Hassabis

And I guess that's maybe the thing that's been haunting me, obsessing me from the beginning of my career.

If you think about all the different things I've done, they're all related in that way.

The simulation, nature of reality, and what is the bounds of what can be modeled.

Sorry for the ridiculous question, but so far, what is the greatest video game of all time?

What's up there?

Well, my favorite one of all time is Civilization, I have to say.

That was the Civilization 1 and Civilization 2, my favorite games of all time.

Yes, exactly.

They take a lot of time, these Civilization games.

So I've got to be careful with them.

I don't know.

It's an interesting one.

I mean, we both love games and it's interesting he wrote games as well to start off with.

It's probably, especially in the era I grew up in where home computers just became a thing in the late 80s and 90s, especially in the UK.

I had a Spectrum and then a Commodore Amiga 500, which is my favorite computer ever.

And that's why I learned all my programming.

And of course, it's a very fun thing to program is to program games.

So I think it's a great way to learn programming, probably still is.

And then, of course, I immediately took it in directions of AI and simulations, which so I was able to express my interest in games and my sort of wider scientific interests altogether.

And then the final thing I think that's great about games is it fuses artistic design,