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Seminal papers, key talks, and essential videos from the people shaping AI — filtered for signal, not noise.

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Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Demis Hassabis — 2025

Lex Fridman Podcast #475. Hassabis covers the full frontier: AGI timelines, scaling laws, AlphaEvolve, simulating biological organisms from first principles, P vs NP, the origin of life, p(doom), consciousness, and why video games were his training ground for thinking about AI. One of his most wide-ranging interviews since the Nobel Prize.

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The Hardest Problem AI Ever Solved

Demis Hassabis — 2024

Hassabis on AlphaFold — how DeepMind used AI to crack the 50-year-old protein-folding problem, what it means for drug discovery and biology, and why he believes it is the single most important scientific contribution AI has made so far.

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