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Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

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The Importance of Simulation in Social Change

I left Copenhagen in 2009 thinking, this is not the path to significant positive social change. So my heart was set on technology at that point. I reached out to Demis who was the brother of my best friend from when I was a kid. We spent many months talking and spent a lot of time with Shane Leg as well. And Shane was really the core driver of the ideas and the language around artificial general intelligence. He had worked on that for his PhD with Marcus Hutter on definitions of intelligence. That was actually the turning point for me.

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