DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI
A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis Hassabis is thinking through some of the most revolutionary—and in some cases controversial—uses of artificial intelligence.
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Show Notes
Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis is thinking through some of the most revolutionary—and in some cases controversial—uses of artificial intelligence. From the development of computer program AlphaGo, which beat out world champions in the board game Go, to making leaps in the research of how proteins fold, Demis is at the helm of the next generation of groundbreaking technology. In this episode, he gives a peek into some of the questions that his top-level projects are asking, talks about how gaming, creativity, and intelligence inform his approach to tech, and muses on where AI is headed next.
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