AXIOS October 21, 2024
Mike Allen

Demis Hassabis — co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and one of the world’s top AI pioneers — says the technology’s coming power has been clear for so long that he’s amazed the rest of the world took so long to catch on.

  • “I’ve been thinking about this for decades. It was so obvious to me this was the biggest thing,” Hassabis, 48, told Axios in a virtual interview from London, where DeepMind is based.
  • “Obviously I didn’t know it could be done in my lifetime. … Even 15 years ago when we started DeepMind, still nobody was working on it, really.”

Why it matters: AI clocked a Nobel moment earlier this month when Hassabis and a DeepMind...

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