An anonymously sourced report from Semafor about Demis Hassabis’s departure from his Google DeepMind CEO role, and his transition to a new role as chief scientist at parent company Alphabet, seems eager to clarify that he left of his own volition, and that he had apparently wanted out for a while.
Alphabet announced the move as part of a wider leadership shakeup on Wednesday.
Sources Semafor calls “two people familiar with [Hassabis’s] thinking” apparently said Hassabis, a Nobel Prize recipient, was increasingly unsatisfied with his tech executive job, and longed to be a scientist again.
Semafor writes that:
“His passions lie in using AI to…
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