02606cam a2200349 i 4500 2705662721 TxAuBib 20260413120000.0 260209s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025045167 9780593831847 $32.00 0593831845 $32.00 (OCoLC)1572369192 TxAuBib rda Mallaby, Sebastian. The infinity machine [BOOK] : Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the quest for superintelligence / Sebastian Mallaby. Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the quest for superintelligence. New York : Penguin Press, [2026] ©2026. xxi, 456 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-440) and index. "Even by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case. Born poor in North London to immigrant parents, a chess prodigy by age five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven figure offer before turning 18 to feed his insatiable scientific curiosity at Cambridge. Later, he added a neuroscience PhD to his computer science skills to pursue the dream of artificial general intelligence, the ultimate goal being to unravel the mysteries of biology and theoretical physics and to usher in super-abundance. Alongside a small group of fellow travelers, that is the path he is still on, leading the AI research at Google, winning a Nobel Prize along the way, and imagining machines that will compound, or possibly supplant, the human understanding of the universe. Hassabis has given Sebastian Mallaby a great deal of his time, sitting for over thirty hours of conversation. But Mallaby has also drawn from Hassabis's detractors, such as his estranged cofounder Mustafa Suleyman; from his rivals, such as OpenAI's leading scientist Ilya Sutskever; and from academic pioneers who now fear for human survival, such as Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton. The result is a revelatory account of a singular figure and his company and a profound reckoning with this protean field as it leaps from the periphery to the center of our consciousness.". 20260413. Hassabis, Demis, 1976- Google DeepMind (Firm.) Computer scientists. Artificial intelligence. Biographies.