Demis Hassabis on choosing what’s worth spending your life building in a world changing this fast:

“Going after hard problems and deep problems, it’s no more difficult in some ways than going after a shallower, simpler, more superficial problem. They’re just differently difficult.”

“Given life’s very short and you only have so much time and energy, you might as well put your life force into something that will really make a difference.”

“If you start off on a deep tech journey today... you’re talking about a 10-year journey for true deep tech. So now you have to consider AGI appearing in the middle of that journey.”

“Imagine what that world would look like and then build something that would be useful if that comes in halfway through.”