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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis, joins Azeem Azhar to explore his company's progression from gaming to accelerating scientific discovery.

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H.B.R. presents. Hi, I'm Azimazar, and you're listening to Exponential View.

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Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss the forces shaping our near future.

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Today I'm speaking with Demis Hasabis, the co-founder and CEO of Deep Mind, one of the leading industrial research labs focusing on the question of artificial intelligence.

0:49.0

Now it's no exaggeration to suggest that Demis is also one of the world's greatest minds himself.

0:54.2

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

0:59.9

flagship pentamined event at the Mindsports Olympiad five times in a row.

1:05.0

Makes me think of him as the Bjorn Borg of Mind Games.

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Demis then combined his love of games of that of computing,

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designing the incredibly popular game

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theme park with legendary games designer Peter Moligner. After studying computer science

1:19.3

at Cambridge, Demis went back to games design until 2009.

1:23.4

Since then he's focused his energies on neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

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His research into the relationship between memory and imagination was listed in the top ten

1:32.4

breakthroughs of the year by Science magazine in 2007.

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And in 2010 he found a deep mind with two of his friends.

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It now employs nearly a thousand people.

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Deep mind has achieved many milestones in artificial it now employs nearly a thousand people.

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Deep Mind has achieved many milestones in artificial intelligence.

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Notably, its system Alpha Go beat the world's top-ranked Go Master in 2017,

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