“this is my whole reason why I worked on AI and AGI my whole life, because I think it can be the ultimate tool to help us answer these kind of questions. I don't really understand why the average person doesn't worry about this stuff more. Like how can we not have a good definition of life and not living and non-living, and the nature of time, and let alone consciousness and gravity and all these things.

It's just quantum mechanics weirdness. It's just, to me, I've always had this screaming at me in my face.”

From Lex Fridman Podcast: #475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games, Jul 23, 2025

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000718721313&r=3278

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