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From a young age , Demis Hassabis showed a keen interest in AI and has since founded a number of dedicated companies , including Elixir Studios , DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs . At 17 , Hassabis joined the computer game company Bullfrog Productions , where he worked as a designer on science fiction game Syndicate . Here , he was the lead programmer for the highly influential Theme Park , which won the industry ’ s Golden Joystick Award .

In 2010 , Hassabis founded AI company DeepMind Technologies with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman . The trio began working on AI technology by teaching it how to play old games from the seventies and eighties . Their goal with this technology was to create a general-purpose AI that can be useful and effective for almost anything .

Hassabis attended Cambridge University where he studied for his computer science undergraduate degree , earning a double first-class honours .