TED Google Demis Hassabis, the 40-year-old cofounder of renowned artificial intelligence (AI) lab DeepMind, is recognised worldwide as one of the smartest thinkers in his field. "The company is developing sophisticated self-learning algorithms that can excel at particular tasks when it is given a dataset to learn from.

He obtained his PhD from IDSIA in Switzerland, where he was supervised by Prof. Marcus Hutter, an expert on theoretical models of super intelligent machines.The 43-year-old works alongside Hassabis to lead DeepMind's research. YouTube/Nature Show more. Nature DeepMind won convincingly, taking four of the five games.As did former Google CEO and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt.Silver and Hassabis also worked together at Elixir before DeepMind existed.In 2014, he won the Mullard Award from the Royal Society, and in 2016, he was ranked in Nature's "10 people that matter this year".In 2017, Time nominated him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Get a daily round up of our most popular tech stories. as well as other partner offers and accept our After graduating from Cambridge, Hassabis worked at Following Elixir Studios, Hassabis returned to academia to obtain his He continued his neuroscience and artificial intelligence research as a visiting scientist jointly at Working in the field of autobiographical memory and amnesia, he co-authored several influential papersDeepMind's mission is to "solve intelligence" and then use intelligence "to solve everything else".DeepMind's early investors included several high-profile tech entrepreneurs.Since the Google acquisition, the company has notched up a number of significant achievements, perhaps the most notable being the creation of More recently, DeepMind turned its artificial intelligence to protein-folding, one of the toughest problems in science.

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