Do Not Disturb My Circles

If I’d had my way, we would have left it in the lab for longer and done more things like AlphaFold, maybe cured cancer or something like that. That’s Demis Hassabis (I cannot recomend watching The Thinking Game enough and or read The Infinity Machine), the CEO of Google DeepMind and a Nobel Prize winner, describing the future he didn’t get. He wanted a CERN for artificial intelligence. A decade or two of careful, methodical work. The world’s best scientists collaborating on each step toward...