Demis Hassabis: belief

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…So it’s easy to come up with a thing that’s extremely difficult. It’s easy to come up with a thing that’s extremely easy, but at that very edge- That sweet spot of basically advancing the science and splitting the hypothesis space into two, ideally. Right? Whether if it’s true or not true, you’ve learned something really useful and that’s hard. And making something that’s also falsifiable and within the technologies that you currently have available. So it’s a very creative process, actually. A highly creative process that I think just a kind of naive search on top of a model won’t be enough for that. The idea of splitting the hypothesis space in two is super interesting. So I’ve heard you say that there’s basically no failure or failure is extremely valuable if you construct the questions right, if you construct the experiments right, if you design them right, that failure or success are both useful, so perhaps because it splits the hypothesis basically in two, it’s like a binary search?…

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