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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

  1. orsenthil · · focus · HN ↗
    > I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. It’s time for AI to prove its unequivocal value to the world, and what better way to demonstrate that than to help finally cure diseases like cancer.

    Here is someone spelling out explicitly what we should be discussing. More power to you, Demis Hassabis. Thank you!

    1. tim333 · · focus · HN ↗
      It may be why he's moved role. He can focus on that, someone else can work on getting Gemini above Claude on the LLM Arena leaderboards.
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