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The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
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Nick Lane
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This book by Nick Lane came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Demis Hassabis. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“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
The guest here is Demis Hassabis: CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, the AI lab behind AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaFold. A former chess prodigy and games designer turned neuroscientist, he is one of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on solving intelligence, how AlphaFold cracked protein folding, and using AI to understand the universe itself.
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