Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British AI researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014. Based on his book recommendations, he seems to have wide-ranging interests, from science fiction to creativity and history.
Books Recommended by Demis Hassabis 7
Game Changer
"Congratulations to all of the authors on this year’s shortlist for @ecfchess book of the year, including @gmmds & @NatashaRegan123 for Game Changer, their brilliant book about #AlphaZero"
tweet View source ↗"If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book]."
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Sapiens
"Really great book"
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Consider Phlebas
"excited for this, Banks' Culture series is brilliant. Consider Phlebas is one of my favourite books, I read it back in the day when I was programming Theme Park, the cheat code for the game is 'Horza', the main character from the book..."
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The Glass Bead Game
"Really reminds me of one of my favourite books of all-time: "The Glass Bead Game" by the incomparable Hermann Hesse"
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Culture (11 books)
"Brilliant."
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Foundation (7 books)
"One of the best science fiction series ever written."
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