Demis Hassabis: pick hard problems, and assume AGI arrives mid-journey
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-17
Demis Hassabis on choosing what to build in a fast-changing world: hard problems aren't harder than shallow ones, just differently difficult; deep tech takes 10 years so you must factor AGI arriving midway; imagine the AGI world and build what stays useful in it.
Related event: DeepMind CEO Hassabis urges tackling hard problems in the AGI era(2 posts)→
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