In 2010 , Demis Hassabis co-founded the artificial intelligence company DeepMind Technologies , which has been credited as bringing AI to the mainstream
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In 2010 , Demis Hassabis co-founded the artificial intelligence company DeepMind Technologies , which has been credited as bringing AI to the mainstream
As CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind , Demis Hassabis is one of the most influential experts in the field of AI .
A child chess prodigy , at the age of 17 Hassabis joined the computer game company Bullfrog Productions , where he worked as a designer on science fiction game Syndicate . Here , Hassabis was the lead programmer for the highly influential Theme Park , released in 1994 , which won the industry ’ s Golden Joystick Award .
In 2010 , Hassabis founded the 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 1970s and 80s , with a goal to create a general-purpose AI that can be useful for almost anything .
Hassabis attended Cambridge University where he studied for his computer science undergraduate degree , earning a double first-class honours .
At the start of 2014 , Google announced the company had acquired DeepMind for $ 500m and agreed to take over DeepMind technologies . With Google , DeepMind established an artificial intelligence ethics board .
Later that same year , DeepMind received the ‘ Company of the Year ’ award from Cambridge Computer Laboratory . It also published research
2010
Co-founded DeepMind
2014
DeepMind acquired by Google on computer systems that are able to play the board game ‘ Go ’.
AlphaGo , a computer program developed by DeepMind , beat the European Go champion Fan Hui in 2015 . This was the first time an AI defeated a professional Go player . Go is considered much more difficult for computers to win . Due to the high number of possibilities within the game , it is prohibitively difficult for traditional AI methods such as brute force .
With Amazon , Google , Facebook , IBM and Microsoft , in 2016 DeepMind became a founding member of Partnership on AI , an organisation dedicated to the society-AI interface .
AlphaFold makes headlines Last year DeepMind made headlines with AlphaFold , which is capable of deciphering the structure of almost all proteins known to science .
The company partnered with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL ) to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome .
“ Our goal at DeepMind has always been to build AI and then use it as a tool to help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery itself ”