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I've always been suspicious of any announcement from Demis Hassabis since way back in his video game days when he did a monthly article in Edge magainze about t
by zippothrowaway 3y ago
I've always been suspicious of any announcement from Demis Hassabis since way back in his video game days when he did a monthly article in Edge magainze about the game he was developing. "Infinite Polygons" became a running joke in the industry because of his obvious snake-oil. The game itself, Republic [1], was an uninteresting failure.
He learned how to promote himself from working for Peter "Project Milo" Molyneux and I see similar patterns of hype.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic:_The_Revolution#Marketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic:_The_Revolution#Marke...
- pradn 3y agoThe line between delusional and visionary is thin! I know I'm too grounded in "expected value" math to do super outlier stuff like starting a video game company...
- Qwero 3y agoFunny read about his game. Nonetheless while still underwhelming in comparison to gpt-4 (excluding this announcement as I haven't tried it yet), alpha go, zero and especially fold were tremendous!
- COAGULOPATH 3y agoYeah, it's funny. I used to think "Demis Hassabis...where have I heard that name before?" And then I realized I saw him in the manuals for old Bullfrog games.
- rreichman 3y agoAnd yet - AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold...