Demis Hassabis
Artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, founder and CEO of DeepMind.
Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 after successful careers in academia and computer game development. A child chess prodigy, he designed and programmed the multi-million selling, award-winning game Theme Park at the age of 17. After graduating from Cambridge University, he founded pioneering videogames firm Elixir Studios and completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL. The journal Science listed his research on imagination and memory as one of 2007’s top ten breakthroughs. Demis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2017 he featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people, and in 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to science and technology.
Visit website: https://deepmind.com/about#leadership
See also:
DeepMind
- Company developing AI systems for solving problems.
Demis Hassabis News
Google's parent company launched Isomorphic Labs to discover new drugs using AI
TechCrunch - 04-Feb-2022
Building from Deepmind's AI research, Isomorphic promises medical breakthroughs
Read more...Deepmind's AI program has decoded a protein mystery
Guardian - 30-Nov-2020
Will help in developing designer meds, better crops & 'green enzymes' to counter pollution
Read more...Human-like intuition and creativity, now exhibited by DeepMind's AlphaZero
YAHOO! - 07-Dec-2018
This improvisation was regarded as historical 'turning point' for AI
Read more...AI researchers sign pledge against killer robots
Guardian - 18-Jul-2018
Over 150 firms agreed against developing A.I-based weapons, governments should be next
Read more...