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.

In AI, games are more than just fun—they can reconceive what’s possible. Demis Hassabis, cofounder of DeepMind and 2024 Nobel Laureate, knows this firsthand. In 2016, after AlphaGo—the AI ...

Speaking at a briefing in DeepMind's London offices on Monday, Demis Hassabis said that he thinks artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is as smart or smarter than humans — will start ...