🎬 The Thinking Game: How Did Games Lead Demis Hassabis to Found DeepMind and Win a Nobel Prize?
"This is a hugely critical moment for all humanity, and there's no time to waste," declares Google DeepMind co-founder and Nobel Laureate Sir Demis Hassabis.
Director Greg Kohs spent five years filming The Thinking Game, following Hassabis everywhere and capturing the most vivid moments of his—and DeepMind's—life.
A number of episodes show a very young Demis—he was a chess prodigy at 13 and graduated from high school at 16. He went into game development and later studied computer science at Cambridge.
Hassabis explains in detail how and why his passion for games led him into the field of AI. He received a doctorate in neurobiology in his 30s and, in 2010, founded the DeepMind lab with the goal of "solving the intelligence problem."
"My whole life goal is to solve artificial general intelligence. <...> I wanted to explore the edge of the Universe," says Hassabis.
In 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo model beat the world's leading human player in Go, and in 2018 the lab released AlphaFold, a model that revolutionized biology and brought Hassabis the Nobel Prize.
Hassabis is a devoted techno-optimist. Throughout the film (and his entire life), he insists that AI will dramatically change the world as we know it—and definitely for the better.
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