Demis Hassabis: belief

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…I think that underappreciated art form is the interface design because I think you can not unlock the power of the intelligence of a system if you don’t have the right interface. The interface is really the way you unlock its power. It’s such an interesting question of how to do that. So how you would think getting out of the way isn’t real art form. Yes. It’s the sort of thing that I guess Steve Jobs always talked about, right? It’s simplicity, beauty, and elegance that we want. And we’re not that nobody’s there yet, in my opinion. And that’s what I would like us to get to. Again, it sort of speaks to Go again as a game, the most elegant, beautiful game. Can you make an interface as beautiful as that? Actually, I think we’re going to enter an era of AI-generated interfaces that are probably personalized to you, so it fits the way that you, your aesthetic, your feel, the way that your brain works and the AI kind of generates that depending on the task. That feels like that’s probably the direction we’ll end up in. Because some people are power users and they want every single parameter on the screen, everything based perhaps me with a keyboard-based navigation and to have shortcuts for everything. And some people like the minimalism.…

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