How do you keep power forever over something that's much more powerful than you? Hi Alpha, hello there. My whole life goal is to solve

artificial general intelligence. I think this is a hugely critical moment for all humanity. There's no time to waste. Will

you not be listening to what I was saying? I actually got into AI through games. I was the second highest-rated

chess player in the world for my age, so I've always been thinking about thinking. So you're going to study

neuroscience. What's the end game? I wanted to explore the edge of the universe. That's not a normal person you

find in a tech company. They introduced the idea that they could beat the top-level Go players in a game that was thought to be

incomputable. It's amazing. It's discovered its own attacking style. You know, they had a little chart, how much better they were

getting. Oh, holy monkey! And I said, when does this stop? The ultimate goal was to crack real-world challenges. I've never

stopped thinking about the protein folding problem. The potential to help solve Alzheimer's, dementia, and drug discovery is huge. I thought it would

need AI to do it. I did think to myself, well, good luck if you are at the forefront of science. This makes no sense.

You will fail a great deal. We were the best in the world at a problem the world's not good at.

We sucked, and then suddenly we've done this thing, and it might be kind of a big deal. That's very

very cool. I was gobsmacked. I was just excited. It'll be the biggest thing ever. These are gifts to humanity. There's so

many things that got to be cracked, but I won't give up until it's done. What is it

that you like about this game? It's just a good thinking game.

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