'Infinity Machine' is a biography of an Oppenheimer-like figure in AI - TPR: The Public's Radio

'Infinity Machine' is a biography of an Oppenheimer-like figure in AI - TPR: The Public's Radio

Demis Hassabis says when he set up an AI lab in 2010, “no one believed in it.” The Google DeepMind co-founder and Nobel Prize winner is the subject of Infinity Machine, a new biography by Sebastian Mallaby. The book is a portrait of Hassabis, who Mallaby characterizes as a rare competitor across both science and business. In today’s episode, Mallaby speaks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep about Hassabis’ origins as a young chess player, his Einstein-lev…