Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI, Creativity, and a Golden Age of Science | All-In Summit
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A genius who may hold the cards of our future.
CEO of Google DeepMind, which is the engine of the company's artificial intelligence.
After his Nobel and a knighthood from King Charles, he became a pioneer of of artificial intelligence.
We were the first ones to start doing it seriously in the modern era. AlphaGo was the big watershed moment, I think, not just for DeepMind and my company, but for AI in general. This was always my aim with AI from a kid, is to use it to accelerate scientific discovery.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Google DeepMind's Demes Hassabis. Welcome. Great to be here. Thanks for thanks for following Tucker, Mark Cuban, et al. First off, congrats on winning the Nobel Prize.
Thank you.
For the incredible breakthrough of AlphaFold, maybe you may have done this before, but I know everyone here would love to hear your recounting of how you where you were when you won the Nobel Prize. How did
you find out? Well, it's a very surreal moment, obviously. You know, it's Everything about it is surreal. The way they tell you, they tell you like ten minutes before it all goes live. It's just, you know, you can't really It's You're sort of shell shocked when you get that call from Sweden. It's the call that every scientist dreams about. And and then the Serrel ceremony is a whole week in Sweden with the Royal family. It's amazing. Obviously, it's been going for a hundred and twenty years. And the most amazing bit is they bring out the this Nobel book from the from the vaults in the safe and
Did you have an inkling you had been nominated and that this might be coming your way?
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