Just before Christmas 2024, the writer Sebastian Mallaby met Sir Demis Hassabis for one of their regular talks in a London pub. This time, the co-founder of the AI research company Google DeepMind fished a mysterious leather box out of his backpack. Inside was a heavy gold disc he had just received: the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Hassabis told Mallaby that he wouldn’t swap the prize for any amount of money. “If you offered me $10bn for the Nobel, I would say no.”
2024年圣诞节前夕,作家塞巴斯蒂安•马拉比(Sebastian Mallaby)在伦敦一家酒吧与德米斯•哈萨比斯爵士(Sir Demis Hassabis)进行了一次例行会面。这一次,这位人工智能研究公司谷歌(Google) DeepMind的联合创始人从背包里掏出一个神秘的皮盒。里面是一枚沉甸甸的金牌:是他刚刚获得的诺贝尔化学奖奖牌。哈萨比斯告诉马拉比,拿再多的钱交换这个奖他也不会愿意。“就算你给我100亿美元买这个诺贝尔奖,我也会拒绝。”