Demis Hassabis

That's how he is 24-7.

I don't think his father meant his comment in quite the literal sense.

Try your best wasn't supposed to mean try literally to the point of destroying yourself.

Go absolutely completely 100%.

But that's how Demis understood it.

There is no 50% mode in Demis.

There's not even a 99% mode in Demis.

There is only 100%.

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And so that's a great overview, and I want to dig in now to his childhood about why he might be like this.

He was very special from a very young age.

His mother had grown up in poverty, spending part of her childhood as an orphan on the streets of Singapore.

His father had been the first from his family to attend university.