The Power of Self-Learning Systems | Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder & CEO, DeepMind Talk at MIT + Center for Brains, Minds, & Machines | 2019

Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind, is discussing the capabilities and power of self-learning systems. He is also illustrating this with reference to some of DeepMind’s recent breakthroughs, including the AlphaZero, AlphaStar and AlphaFold systems, and talk about the implications of cutting-edge AI research for scientific and philosophical discovery.

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Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company that develops general-purpose learning algorithms and uses them to help tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Since its founding in London in 2010, DeepMind has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, five of them in the scientific journal Nature, an unprecedented achievement for a computer science lab. DeepMind’s groundbreaking work includes the development of deep reinforcement learning, combining the domains of deep learning and reinforcement learning.

In 2014, DeepMind was acquired by Google and is now part of Alphabet. After leading successful technology startups for a decade and, prior to founding DeepMind, Hassabis completed a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard. He is a five-time World Games Champion, recipient of the Royal Society’s Mullard Award, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Source : https://hai.stanford.edu/people/demis-hassabis

DeepMind: The Podcast | Ep. 8: Demis Hassabis – The interview | TRAIL

In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. She digs into his former life as a chess player, games designer, and neuroscientist and explores how his love of chess helped him to get start-up funding, what drives him and his vision, and why AI keeps him up at night.

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