// curated_library
Seminal papers, key talks, and essential videos from the people shaping AI — filtered for signal, not noise.
Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
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.
The Hardest Problem AI Ever Solved
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.
Geoffrey Hinton — Turing Award Lecture
Hinton's lecture on the development of deep learning, from the early days of backpropagation through the ImageNet moment. A first-hand account of the long AI winter and what it took to survive it.
Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?
Hinton's talk following his departure from Google — the 'Godfather of AI' explains why he changed his mind on AI risk, and what he now believes we should be worried about.