Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks · 1987
Spotted in A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity's Hardest Problems. It Already Has., The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-11
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Reading list
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate
Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work of AlphaFold. He researches artificial general intelligence and how to apply it to scientific discovery.
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The list
Podcast
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
"All of which had a big influence on me."
Spotted in Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and AI (interview chapter in Game Changer)
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter · 1979
"All of which had a big influence on me."
Spotted in Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and AI (interview chapter in Game Changer)
Permutation City
Greg Egan · 1994
Spotted in A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity's Hardest Problems. It Already Has., The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-11
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman · 1985
"I really recommend to any student to read those books."
Spotted in Transcript from an interview with Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize, 2024 · 2024-12-06
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