DeepMind CEO Hassabis urges tackling hard problems in the AGI era

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared advice in a Y Combinator talk, arguing that pursuing hard, meaningful problems is no harder than easy ones—just hard in different ways—and urging people to devote their life force to what truly matters in the AGI era.

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