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> They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank.

For a guy who spent his life imagining and realising dreams in video games and cognitive abilities in artificial neural networks, it has to be very soul destroying for Demis to spend his time doing something as frivolous as this.

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I don't know, Hassabis always seems to have been willing and able to do PR and put himself out there, in addition to having the technical muscle.

Didn't he get kicked out of the company he founded? Deep Mind does not have a CEO anymore

So it seems, but what of it? That wasn't his first career setback, and I'm sure he's still trying to get interesting work done at Isomorphic and maybe elsewhere in addition to working the PR pump for Alphabet.



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