Deepening the humiliation, DeepMind leaders caught wind that Musk was trash-talking Hassabis to his contacts in Silicon Valley, according to people who worked at DeepMind and OpenAI. When the billionaire was talking to all the new staff at OpenAI, for instance, he warned them about DeepMind’s work in England and suggested Hassabis was a shady character. He cast suspicion over the way Hassabis had designed Evil Genius, a game where you played a villain trying to build a doomsday device and dominate the world. Whoever created games like that was probably a little maniacal themselves. OpenAI’s
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