About this episode
<p>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.</p><p>If you have a question or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/deepmind?lang=en">@DeepMind</a> using the hashtag #DMpodcast) or email us at <a href="mailto:podcast@deepmind.com">podcast@deepmind.com</a>.</p><p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-protein-folding">Wired: Inside DeepMind's epic mission to solve science's trickiest problem</a></li><li><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-science-20190311/">Quanta magazine: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgd3OK5DZWI">Demis Hassabis: A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI. Talk at the 2010 Singularity Summit</a> </li><li><a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/video/power-self-learning-systems">Demis Hassabis: The power of self-learning systems. Talk at MIT 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-bvsJWmqlc">Demis Hassabis: Talk on Creativity and AI</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/048f418c-2487-11e7-a34a-538b4cb30025">Financial Times: The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence (2017)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/demis-hassabis-interview-the-brains-behind-deepmind-on-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-mzk0zhsp8">The Times: Interview with Demis Hassabis</a></li><li><a href="https://play.acast.com/s/theeconomistbabbage/99af5224-b955-4a3c-930c-91a68bfe6c88?autoplay=true">The Economist Babbage podcast: DeepMind Games</a></li><li><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/podcast/Game%20Changer%20-%20Demis%20Hassabis%20Interview.pdf"><strong>Interview with Demis Hassabis</strong></a> <strong>from</strong> <a href="https://www.newinchess.com/game-changer"><strong>the book Game Changer</strong></a><strong>, which also features an introduction from Demis</strong></li></ul><p><strong>Interviewees:</strong> Deepmind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis</p><p><strong>Credits:</strong><br />Presenter: Hannah Fry<br />Editor: David Prest<br />Senior Producer: Louisa Field<br />Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon<br />Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown<br />Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)<br />Commissioned by DeepMind</p> <p><p>Please leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode. We always want to hear from our audience whether that's in the form of feedback, new idea or a guest recommendation! </p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>