Demis Hassabis Recommended Books
Demis Hassabis has recommended 23 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
(Read more on Wikipedia)23 Books Recommended
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Game Changer
AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI
"If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book]." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Sapiens
A Brief History, Book 1
"There's not many times where I read a book and come out with 20 new ideas I hadn't thought about before, and [this book] made me think like that." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Naval Ravikant, Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Attia, Ashton Kutcher, Whitney Cummings, Richard Branson, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, James Cameron, Keith Rabois, Daniel Ek, Reid Hoffman, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Kishore Biyani, Ryan Shea, Melinda Gates, Bill Gurley, Karlie Kloss, Anthony Pompliano, Changpeng Zhao, PewDiePie, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Chris Evans, Simon Mayo, Penn Jillette, Mark Manson, James Clear
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
"All about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
"About Pixar." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Also recommended by:
Ezra Klein, Mark Zuckerberg, Jason Calacanis, Alexis Ohanian, Michael Mauboussin, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Trung Phan
Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
"Tying together Gödel's incompleteness theory with mathematics, with Escher's drawings, and Bach's fugues. And showing they're all related in some way." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Also recommended by:
Kevin Kelly, Steve Jurvetson, Naval Ravikant, David Deutsch, Sahil Lavingia, Chris Hayes
Foundation (7 books)
"One of the best science fiction series ever written." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Also recommended by:
Adam Gazzaley, Elon Musk, Lex Fridman, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Shea, Sam Altman, Stewart Brand, Austen Allred, Cameron Winklevoss, Sahil Lavingia
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