Azeem’s Picks: Demis Hassabis on DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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How DeepMind Balances Scaling and High Risk Exploration
DeepMind has a 70-20-10 rule, which is that 70% of the work we do and people and resources are on the core sort of multi-year objectives. 20% is more freeform exploration, but still in the kind of approved set of topics,. And then we have 10% that's just literally almost orthogonal bets. We try to synthesize the drive and energy you get from the best startups. And then combining that with blue sky creativity that you get in the best academic labs.
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