The Infinity Machine chronicles DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis’s pursuit of artificial general intelligence—detailing the breakthroughs, setbacks, and innovations that led to AlphaFold and ultimately to Hassabis’ 2024 Nobel Prize.
If you want to learn about AI, in general, and its most important accomplishment to date -- AlphaFold, this podcast is a must watch/hear. Sebastian is not just a marvelous writer. He’s also a marvelous expositor with a truly amazing career as a journalist and author. Here’s Sebastian’s Wiki bio.
Sebastian Mallaby is an English journalist and author, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Formerly, he was a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post. His recent writings have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly. His books include The Man Who Knew (2016), the best seller More Money Than God (2010), and The World’s Banker (2004).
Economic Matters - The podcast is hosted by Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston University Economist, a NY Times Best Selling Author, President of maxifi.com, and Author of Money Magic.
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