📖 DeepMind's Journey from Games to Fundamental Science

A transcript of my conversation with Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind.

This is a transcript of my conversation with DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis. Listen to the full conversation on your platform of choice or on our podcast page. The transcript is open to members only.

Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, one of the leading industrial research labs focusing on the question of artificial intelligence. Demis is also one of the World’s greatest minds himself. As a teenager he was ranked number two in the world for his age in chess. An avid games player, he went on to win the flagship Pentamind event at the Mind Sports Olympiad five times in a row. Demis then combined his love of games with that of computing, designing the incredibly popular game Theme Park, with legendary games designer Peter Molyneux. After studying computer science at Cambridge, Demis went back to games design until 2009. Since then, he’s focused his energies on neuroscience in artificial intelligence. His research into the relationship between memory and …