Demis Hassabis is a British neuroscientist, cognitive scientist, and entrepreneur best known for co-founding DeepMind, which developed AlphaGo—the AI system that defeated world champion Lee Sedol at Go. His work bridges neuroscience and artificial intelligence, exploring how the brain learns and creates. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014 and has become a leading AI research laboratory.
5 Books Recommended by Demis Hassabis
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Sapiens
34 people recommendedThere's not many times where I read a book and come out with 20 new ideas I hadn't thought about before, and [this book] made me think like that.
Also recommended by: Ankur Warikoo, Naval Ravikant, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Changpeng Zhao, Daniel Ek, James Cameron, Kishore Biyani, Melinda Gates, Ray Dalio, Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gurley, Anthony Pompliano, Chris Evans, James Clear, Joe Rogan, Karlie Kloss, Keith Rabois, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Penn Jillette, Peter Attia, Pewdiepie, Ryan Shea, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Simon Mayo, Whitney Cummings, Derek Sivers
Creativity, Inc.
8 people recommendedAbout Pixar.
Also recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg, Alexis Ohanian, Ezra Klein, Jason Calacanis, Michael Mauboussin, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Trung Phan
Gödel, Escher, Bach
7 people recommendedTying together Gödel's incompleteness theory with mathematics, with Escher's drawings, and Bach's fugues. And showing they're all related in some way.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Chris Hayes, David Deutsch, Kevin Kelly, Sahil Lavingia, Steve Jurvetson
Dreams of a Final Theory
2 people recommendedAll about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything.
Also recommended by: David Deutsch
Game Changer
If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book].