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How Deepmind's Demis Hassabis ushered in the dizzying rise of AI ...
An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Illustration of a laptop displaying a vibrant digital world with a It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making.At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go, the ancient Chinese board game — sat across from AlphaGo, a computer program built by the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind. Chess had fallen to machines nearly twenty years earlier, when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. But Go was different. The number of possible moves is so astronomically large — more potential board states than atoms in the observable universe — that no computer could simply crunch its way to a winning position.“Most Go professionals agreed. Defeating Deep‑Mind would be the easiest million dollars a top pro could hope for,” writes Sebastian Mallaby in “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence” (Penguin Press), out now.After being defeated in a game of by AlphaGo — a computer program built by the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind — Lee Sedol apologized to all humans. Getty ImagesThe turning point came in the second game, with a single move. After thirty-six turns, Lee stepped away for a cigarette. When he returned, AlphaGo had placed a black stone in a strange, open area of the board — a move so unconventional that it looked, at first glance, like a mistake. Lee stared at it for twelve minutes. In another room, commentators struggled to make sense of it.When the game ended more than a hundred moves later, Move 37 had cracked the match open. DeepMind would go on to win four of the five games. “The Korean was playing some of the best Go of his career, but AlphaGo outclassed him,” Mallaby writes. “At that day’s press conference, with banks of cameras flashing in his face, [Lee] apologized to all humans.”Lee’s apology hung in the air. It was, Mallaby writes, the question no one quite knew how to answer: “What were humans supposed to do in the face of machine superintelligence?”The man who built AlphaGo had been thinking about that question his entire life.Mallaby spent three years and more than thirty hours in conversation with Demis Hassabis — DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, chess prodigy, video game designer, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate — and interviewed over a hundred people in his orbit, producing a portrait of the central figure in the ...
How Deepmind's Demis Hassabis ushered in the dizzying rise of AI ...
It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making.At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go, the ancient Chinese board game — sat across from AlphaGo, a computer program built by the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind. Chess had fallen to machines nearly twenty years earlier, when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. But Go was different. The number of possible moves is so astronomically large — more potential board states than atoms in the observable universe — that no computer could simply crunch its way to a winning position.“Most Go professionals agreed. Defeating Deep‑Mind would be the easiest million dollars a top pro could hope for,” writes Sebastian Mallaby in “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence” (Penguin Press), out now.After being defeated in a game of by AlphaGo — a computer program built by the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind — Lee Sedol apologized to all humans. Getty ImagesThe turning point came in the second game, with a single move. After thirty-six turns, Lee stepped away for a cigarette. When he returned, AlphaGo had placed a black stone in a strange, open area of the board — a move so unconventional that it looked, at first glance, like a mistake. Lee stared at it for twelve minutes. In another room, commentators struggled to make sense of it.When the game ended more than a hundred moves later, Move 37 had cracked the match open. DeepMind would go on to win four of the five games. “The Korean was playing some of the best Go of his career, but AlphaGo outclassed him,” Mallaby writes. “At that day’s press conference, with banks of cameras flashing in his face, [Lee] apologized to all humans.”Lee’s apology hung in the air. It was, Mallaby writes, the question no one quite knew how to answer: “What were humans supposed to do in the face of machine superintelligence?”The man who built AlphaGo had been thinking about that question his entire life.Mallaby spent three years and more than thirty hours in conversation with Demis Hassabis — DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, chess prodigy, video game designer, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate — and interviewed over a hundred people in his orbit, producing a portrait of the central figure in the most consequential, and most dangerous, technological race in history.DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis. Getty Im...
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial ...
Demis Hassabis is the Co-Founder & CEO of Google DeepMind - working on AGI, responsible for AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go; and AlphaFold, which cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and was recognised with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Inside the Power Struggle That Reshaped Google's AI Empire
Sundar Pichai's decision to block DeepMind's independence didn't just end a corporate governance debate; it fundamentally altered how one of AI's brightest minds approaches the technology's biggest risks. For more than two years, Demis Hassabis fought to build a firewall between DeepMind ...
