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