Games are just our training domain. We’re not doing all this work just to solve games; we want to build these general algorithms that we can apply to real-world problems.
CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF DEEPMIND AI RESEARCHER AND NEUROSCIENTIST
Demis Hassabis is a former child chess prodigy, who started coding and designing video games professionally at age 16. After graduating from Cambridge University, Demis spent a decade leading and founding successful startups focused on video games and simulation. He returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, followed by postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now part of Alphabet’s portfolio of companies.
MARTIN FORD: I know you had a very strong interest in chess and video games when you were younger. How has that influenced your career in AI research and your decision to found DeepMind?
DEMIS HASSABIS...