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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Anything Quantum in the Brain?

I think understanding physics in terms of information theory might be the best way to to really understand what's going on here. I would be very hesitant to bet against how far the universal Turing machine and classical computation paradigm can go. And my betting would be that all of certainly what’s going on in our brain can probably be mimicked or approximated on a classical machine, not you know not requiring something metaphysical or quantum.

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