Demis Hassabis: How the Google DeepMind CEO Thinks
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Demis Hassabis: How the Google DeepMind CEO Thinks
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In this episode, I profile Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind.
Demis's mission is to build AGI—artificial general intelligence—and use it to solve science's biggest mysteries. I do so through what I believe is the most comprehensive biography of him: The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby.
Mallaby spent 30 hours interviewing Demis and had more than 100 conversations with the people who know him best.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How a chess prodigy became one of the architects of modern AI.
- The inside stories involving Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, Mustafa Suleyman, and others who shaped the AI race.
- Why Hassabis walked away from money multiple times to pursue science instead.
- How DeepMind went from mastering Atari games to creating AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
- Why Hassabis is motivated differently than Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei.
- How Google produced many of the breakthroughs behind today's AI revolution—yet still lost the consumer AI race to ChatGPT.
This episode is part of a series profiling the AI titans.
Enjoy!
Rob Kelly
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