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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
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Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
() – Learnable patterns in nature
() – Computation and P vs NP
() – Veo 3 and understanding reality
() – Video games
() – AlphaEvolve
() – AI research
() – Simulating a biological organism
() – Origin of life
() – Path to AGI
() – Scaling laws
() – Compute
() – Future of energy
() – Human nature
() – Google and the race to AGI
() – Competition and AI talent
() – Future of programming
() – John von Neumann
() – p(doom)
() – Humanity
() – Consciousness and quantum computation
() – David Foster Wallace
() – Education and research
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