Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis ...

Demis Hassabis has long been known as the brilliant British chess champion who became “the grandmaster of AI” (artificial intelligence) when Google bought his London-based DeepMind laboratory ...

It was a bold choice to host a preview screening of The Thinking Game, a documentary about AI company Google DeepMind and its ...

Demis Hassabis believes it could even be as soon as 5 years that AI models are able to match human quality in every task.

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.