The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

The human mind relies on mental shortcuts to pull off this trick; but at the time when Hassabis and Silver were at Cambridge, scientists had found no way to codify these human “heuristics” so that they could be fed into a computer. His dad took him to Foyles, a labyrinthine bookshop in the heart of London that boasted thirty miles of weathered shelves, and Hassabis discovered a slim volume called The Chess Computer Handbook, by the Scottish international master David Levy. It was a terse conjecture, seemingly unassuming. “Any pattern that can be generated or found in nature can be efficiently discovered and modeled by a classical learning algorithm,” Hassabis had declared at the Nobel ceremony. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5 Google stated that Lemoine “chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information.” BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6