The Infinity Machine Quotes

“What the hell is going on here?” There was a pause”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it,” Oppenheimer said. “You argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

“Molyneux gave Hassabis a copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach, a fire hose of a book that has inspired a remarkable number of future AI scientists.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence

“In the late 1990s, however, London venture capitalists hardly deserved the title. In Silicon Valley, T-shirted start-up founders raised millions from seasoned investors. In London, Hassabis felt obliged to don a stuffy suit, and the investors were more pickled than seasoned.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

“avarice,”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

“Anyway,” he continued”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

“All of which meant that Hassabis’s strategic calculation was logical. So long as progress toward artificial general intelligence involved reinforcement learning”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence