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The Thinking Game (AI column)

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I really like to watch documentaries about technology and scientists, so I watched with great interest. film Directed by Greg Kohs about AGI, DeepMind and personally by Demis Hassabis. In fact, “The Thinking Game” was created over five years by the same team that had previously won acclaim for the documentary “AlphaGo” that I’ve already written about. told. The film was shown at festivals in 2024 year and at the end of November 2025 The year he came out on YouTube.

For me, the title of this film echoes Alan Turing's film The Imitation Game and his classic whitepaper, Computer Machinery and Intelligence, which I'm already talking about. told. But if the film about Alan is only based on real events, the film about Demis documentary and immerses us in the real atmosphere of the London laboratory DeepMind and shows how the team is working on AGI. The film combines the narrative of the scientific breakthroughs of DeepMind with elements of the biography of Hassabis himself. We learn about Demis’ early years: his childhood fascination with chess and video games, winning tournaments and becoming a gifted programmer. These personal stories are intertwined with the company’s history, showing how Hassabis’ youthful passion for gaming and interest in the brain evolved into an ambitious project to build intelligent algorithms.

The documentary involves real people. Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, around which the story revolves.

  • Shane Legg. (Shane Legg) Co-founder of DeepMind and longtime colleague of Hassabis, who recalls the start of the company Lead scientists: David Silver, lead developer of the AlphaGo program, Corai Cavuccuoglu (Koray Kavukcuoglu) One of DeepMind’s Research Leaders, Raya Hudsell (Raia Hadsell) - robotics specialist, John Jumper is the leader of the AlphaFold project, split with Demis Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 year.
  • Eric Schmidt. (Eric Schmidt) Former Google CEO who highlights Google’s connection to DeepMind and the significance of their development Stuart Russell. (Stuart J. Russell)Renowned AI expert and co-author of classic AI tutorial (The book was co-authored by Peter Norwig, former director of research and search quality at Google. 2012 Google's Hybrid Approach to Research handler )

The film addressed the following key points: Creating DeepMind in 2010 Together with Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleiman

  • Google in. 2014 buy-out 400 million dollars. DeepMind is now part of Google. (Google DeepMind now)Having access to huge computational resources for their research Breakthroughs in games: AlphaGo and AlphaZero. AlphaGo beats legendary world champion Lee Sedol 2016 year, and in 2017 Chinese champion Ke Jie, the world's strongest Go player. The match was broadcast live in China, but was interrupted when the computer won. Then there was a move away from the parties of people and an improved version of AlphaGo Zero was already learning to play independently without data from human parties. Breakthroughs in science: AlphaFold and other projects. The film details the AlphaFold project, which aims to predict the spatial structure of a protein by its amino acid sequence, a problem scientists have struggled with for decades. By the way, there is an interesting popular science book "From orgasm to immortality". Drag Designer's Notes I'm About told. It was for AlphaFold that Demis and John Jumper received Nobel Prizes, by the way, John’s “Next-Gen AI for Science” speech was given. handler earlier.

By the way, the film was released on film festival screens in 2024 This year, no further history is mentioned. But now 2025 The team continued its research in the form of AlphaEvolve, an agent for solving optimization problems through code writing. I told about this breakthrough before.

I really liked the movie and I recommend it.

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