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It's an in-joke in the British gaming industry.

Hassabis started out working for Pete 'Project Milo' Molyneux and learned how to hype himself very obviously from him (see the Edge article linked above). It's working out well for him but you can see the same breathless self-promotion from him now that we saw 20 years ago.

Fair play, it's made him rich, but we're screwed if we think people like him are the solution to anything.

The Internet never forgets...Pag 44: https://retrocdn.net/images/c/c7/Edge_UK_078.pdf

Surprisingly hard to find information about this via Google. Seems related to Demis' game company Elixir and their game Republic: The Revolution [0] for which he made some claim that it supported an infinite level of detail/polygons.

Just a cursory glance at the information though. Happy to be corrected or have more detail added.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic:_The_Revolution

That's not an impossible claim, UE5 Nanite does it.

I believe this was in the late 90’s and in any case, they didn’t succeed at implementing the system they hyped so much - which is the real problem.