Elon Musk invested in Deep Mind after its founder told him that AI could destroy human colonies on Mars: NYT

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Elon Musk (left) and Demis Hassabis (right).
Elon Musk (left) and DeepMind cofounder and CEO, Demis Hassabis (right).

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DeepMind's cofounder Demis Hassabis is a chess champion who landed funding from Peter Thiel by talking about a key tension in the game

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Demis Hassabis used his knowledge of chess to win DeepMind's first major investment from Peter Thiel.

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Larry Page accused Elon Musk of favoring human species over digital life forms during an argument about the dangers of AI at Musk's 44th birthday

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Musk and Page had a fight about the threats of AI at Musk's birthday party.

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Inflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman tells OpenAI staff 'come run with us' after 'utterly insane' weekend

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Mustafa Suleyman is cofounder of Inflection AI and DeepMind.

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Deepmind's new AI could help forecast extreme weather faster

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Deepmind's AI model was able to predict where a hurricane would make landfall days before conventional forecasters.

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DeepMind's cofounder has a simple solution to make sure AI doesn't kill us all

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Inflection AI cofounder and CEO Mustafa Suleyman.
Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind cofounder who also founded Inflection AI last year said we should made AI doesn't update code without oversight.

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The next phase in AI is interactive bots that'll carry out tasks for you, says the cofounder of Google DeepMind

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DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman.

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Elon Musk privately pondered whether it was worth spending so much time focused on Twitter amid the threat of AI: 'It's not like I need to be richer or something'

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Elon Musk considered spending less time trying to fix Twitter in favor of focusing on AI concerns and colonizing Mars.

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The cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years

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Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of Google's AI division, told CNBC that everybody will have their own AI-powered personal assistant that could serve as one's "chief of staff" over the next five years.

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DeepMind Says It Has a Way to Identify AI Images...but Only on Google

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Google’s DeepMind says it has cracked a problem that has vexed those trying to verify whether images are real or created by AI. Researchers proclaimed their new watermarking SynthID format can be used to pinpoint AI-generated deepfakes without distorting the image’s original quality. The catch is that the program…

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