Demis Hassabis: The interview

In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. She digs into his former life as a chess player, games designer and neuroscientist and explores how his love of chess helped him to get start-up funding, what drives him and his vision, and why AI keeps him up at night.
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Further reading:
• Wired: Inside DeepMind's epic mission to solve science's trickiest problem (wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-protein-folding)
• Quanta magazine: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science (quantamagazine.org/how-artificial-intelligence…)
• Demis Hassabis: A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI. Talk at the 2010 Singularity Summit (youtube.com/watch?v=Qgd3OK5DZWI)
• Demis Hassabis: The power of self-learning systems. Talk at MIT 2019 (cbmm.mit.edu/video/power-self-learning-systems)
• Demis Hassabis: Talk on Creativity and AI (youtube.com/watch?v=d-bvsJWmqlc)
• Financial Times: The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence (2017) (ft.com/content/048f418c-2487-11e7-a34a-538b4cb…)
• The Times: Interview with Demis Hassabis (thetimes.co.uk/article/demis-hassabis-intervie…)
• The Economist Babbage podcast: DeepMind Games (play.acast.com/s/theeconomistbabbage/99af5224-…)
• Interview with Demis Hassabis (storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/podcast/…) from the book Game Changer (newinchess.com/game-changer), which also features an introduction from Demis
Interviewees: Deepmind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis
Credits:
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Editor: David Prest
Senior Producer: Louisa Field
Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon
Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown
Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)
Commissioned by DeepMind

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