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The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
“there's a great book called”
“there's a great book called the 10 grand great inventions of evolution by nick lane and he speculates on 10 of these you know what could be great filters”— Demis Hassabis
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Theme Park
Bullfrog Productions (inferred)
“writing a game called theme park which had ai as a core gameplay component as part of the simulation and it sold millions of copies around the world”— Demis Hassabis
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Black & White
Lionhead Studios (inferred)
“there was a game called black and white which was one game i was involved with in the early stages of which i still think is the most impressive example of reinforcement learning in a computer game”— Demis Hassabis
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ZX Spectrum
Sinclair Research (inferred)
“i managed to buy my first chess computer when i was about eight years old it was a zx spectrum which was hugely popular in the uk at the time”— Demis Hassabis
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Commodore Amiga
Commodore (inferred)
“and then later on i got a commodore amiga which was a fantastic machine”— Demis Hassabis
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Atari ST
Atari (inferred)
“lots of my friends had atari st's and i managed to get amigas it was a bit more powerful”— Demis Hassabis
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The Chess Computer Handbook
David Levy
“it was very formative book i bought which was called the chess computer handbook by david levy which came out in 1984”— Demis Hassabis
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SimCity
Maxis (inferred)
“so it's one of the first types of games like that along with simcity and it meant that every game you played was unique”— Demis Hassabis
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SimEarth
Will Wright
“people like will wright have written games like sim earth trying to simulate the whole of earth pretty tricky”— Demis Hassabis
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The Emperor's New Mind
Roger Penrose
“i read you know emperors of new mind and his books his classical books and they were pretty influential in the 90s”— Demis Hassabis
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“is there other explanation did was there 2001 space out any type of monolith yeah that came down to earth”— Lex Fridman
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