DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
EPIIPLUS 1 Ltd / Azeem Azhar
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:15.0 | H.B.R. presents. Hi, I'm Azimazar, and you're listening to Exponential View. |
| 0:34.0 | Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss the forces shaping our near future. |
| 0:40.0 | 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. |
| 1:09.0 | Demis then combined his love of games of that of computing, |
| 1:12.0 | designing the incredibly popular game |
| 1:14.0 | 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. |
| 1:28.2 | 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. |
| 1:35.8 | And in 2010 he found a deep mind with two of his friends. |
| 1:39.8 | It now employs nearly a thousand people. |
| 1:42.4 | Deep mind has achieved many milestones in artificial it now employs nearly a thousand people. |
| 1:42.6 | Deep Mind has achieved many milestones in artificial intelligence. |
| 1:46.0 | Notably, its system Alpha Go beat the world's top-ranked Go Master in 2017, |
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