Steve Brown

And there was a kind of this vision of ambient computing where, you know, the world would just be smart and responsive to your needs.

What was it like working there?

What were you up to?

An amazing organization run by incredible people.

So Demis Hassabis is a national treasure.

He's one of the global minds in AI, highly respected.

I have nothing but admiration for him and what he's achieved.

And getting to work for him was just incredible.

Actually, my direct line boss was Lila Ibrahim, who was the chief operating officer at the time.

Also an amazing human being, trying to make sure that AI is deployed responsibly in the world.

Just working there, it's very chill.

And yet there's so much this hive of activity to try and bring AGI to the world.

And just inspiring to be there.

It was a bit of an adjustment for me, actually, because...

At Intel, it was very dog-eat-dog, and you have to have sharp elbows, and my elbows perhaps weren't sharp enough when I was there.

I don't really like that.

But to go to DeepMind, where one of their five core values is kindness.

You know, it's just, it's a really lovely collaborative environment.

And the number of people that would lean over and say, hey, can I help you with that?

And they weren't going to get anything out of it.