Demis Hassabis Book Recommendations
Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
(Read more on Wikipedia)22 Books Recommended
Game Changer
AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI
by Matthew Sadler
"If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book]." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
"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)
Also recommended by:
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, Sebastian Junger, Sam Kass, Reid Hoffman, James Clear, Mark Manson, Penn Jillette, Simon Mayo, Chris Evans, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, PewDiePie, Changpeng Zhao, Anthony Pompliano, Karlie Kloss, Bill Gurley, Melinda Gates, Ryan Shea, Kishore Biyani
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by Steven Weinberg
"All about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Also recommended by:
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull
"About Pixar." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Also recommended by:
Ezra Klein, Mark Zuckerberg, Jason Calacanis, Trung Phan, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Michael Mauboussin, Alexis Ohanian
Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
"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
