Books Recommended by Demis Hassabis
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: "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
32 recommendersAshton KutcherBill GatesBill GurleyDaniel EkDemis HassabisJames CameronJoe RoganKarlie KlossKeith RaboisKishore BiyaniLex FridmanMark ZuckerbergNaval RavikantPeter AttiaRay DalioReid HoffmanRichard BransonRyan SheaSam KassSebastian JungerVinod KhoslaWhitney CummingsPewDiePieMelinda GatesAnthony PomplianoChangpeng ZhaoPatrick O'ShaughnessyChris EvansMark MansonSimon MayoPenn JilletteJames ClearGödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Source: "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
Game Changer
AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI
Matthew Sadler
Source: "If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book]." - Demis Hassabis
1 recommenderCulture (10 books)
Iain M. Banks
Source: "Brilliant." - Demis Hassabis
5 recommendersDreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Steven Weinberg
Source: "All about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything." - Demis Hassabis
2 recommendersFoundation (7 books)
Isaac Asimov
Source: "One of the best science fiction series ever written." - Demis Hassabis
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