#416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis

0:00He was caught up in a terrifying capitalistic contest and he relished it.

0:04This is the most crazy, ferocious corporate battle that we've ever seen, he said.

0:08I can't imagine it being any more intense, but I'm doing it my way.

0:12I'm a weird British outlier on this little island here, and I've made my own path.

0:16I've followed my passions and tried to stay true to what I believe in, and I'm going to carry on doing that.

0:22This is my mission, so I will do it 100%.

0:25It is literally just the first level of what's coming.

0:28This is a paradoxical moment, which I guess is sort of messing with my mind.

0:32It should feel amazing, realizing all these dreams that we've had for more than 15 years, but it doesn't feel like how I imagined it would feel.

0:40The way it's going is this mad rush.

0:43I've had to make my peace with that, recognize that it's going to be messy, and I'll just have to do my best, and maybe we, being the world, will muddle through somehow.

0:51I'm optimistic still.

0:54That excerpt is from the end of the book I'm going to talk about today, which is The Infinity Machine, Demis Asabis, Deep Mind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.