What Demis Hassabis thinks about energy
Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.
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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Demis Hassabis has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingInformation is the most fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy or matter.
Their wordsAnd it sort of fits with the way I think about physics in general, which is that I think information is primary, information is the most sort of fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy and matter.
↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsI think fusion and solar are the two that I would bet on. Solar, I mean it's the fusion reactor in the sky of course, and I think really the problem there is batteries and transmission.
↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 12th of 20 in this recording