如果你想了解那些竞相打造世界上最强大技术的人，不妨问问什么让他们彻夜难眠。
YOU CAN LEARN a lot about the people racing to build the world’s most powerful technology by asking what keeps them up at night.
对于 Demis Hassabis 来说，让他睡不着的不仅仅是 AI 的复杂性。本该入睡的时候他却清醒着，因为深夜恰好也是他最喜欢工作的时间。在凌晨的小时候，他的大脑放松下来，世界一片寂静，他可以阅读、深度思考，真正专注于那些他毕生致力解决的问题。
In the case of Demis Hassabis, it’s not just the complexities of AI. He’s wide awake when he should be asleep because the middle of the night also happens to be his favorite time to work. In the small hours of the morning, his brain is loose, the world is silent, and he can read, think deeply and really focus on the problems he’s spent a lifetime trying to solve.
从孩童时代起，Hassabis 就梦想构建一种人工智能，使其足够聪明以破解宇宙的奥秘。当他创办后来成为 Google DeepMind 的研究实验室时，便将毕生的执念化作了公司的使命。
Ever since he was a boy, Hassabis dreamed of building a form of artificial intelligence that would be smart enough to crack the mysteries of the universe. When he started the research lab that became Google DeepMind, he turned his life’s obsession into the mission of his company.
“终极目标是构建 AI 并理解思维，然后利用它来理解科学，”Hassabis 告诉我。“第一步，解决智能问题。第二步，解决其他一切问题。”
“The ultimate goal was to build AI and understand the mind, then use it to understand science,” Hassabis tells me. “Step one, solve intelligence. Step two, solve everything else.”