5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Greg Kohs's 2017 documentary following DeepMind's AlphaGo system as it defeats 18-time world champion Lee Sedol in the board game Go — a milestone moment in AI development — exploring what it means for a machine to master humanity's most complex game.
British AI researcher — co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind — who led the creation of AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold (protein structure prediction) and AlphaGeometry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024) — child chess prodigy, Bullfrog Games designer — the most decorated AI researcher in history.
Canadian-American computer scientist — Distinguished Research Scientist at DeepMind — professor at University of Alberta — co-inventor of temporal difference learning and the author of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction — the father of modern reinforcement learning.
New Zealand AI researcher — co-founder of DeepMind — whose PhD dissertation defined general machine intelligence and whose prediction that a 50% chance of AGI by 2028 (made in 2011) has become one of the most discussed AI forecasts.
Biography or account of DeepMind and the AI revolution — tracing the founding and development of DeepMind from a London startup to a Google-owned AI research powerhouse — covering Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman.