Demis Hassabis: The Future of AlphaGo & Artificial Intelligence
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 Published On Sep 28, 2017

Demis Hassabis at the Chinese Go Association in Wuzhen, China. Demis is a former child chess prodigy, who finished his A-levels two years early before coding the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17.

Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios producing award winning games for global publishers such as Vivendi Universal. After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind.

Recorded: May 2017

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