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Demis Hassabis

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.

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Player of Games

Iain M. Banks's 1988 Culture novel — about Jernau Gurgeh, the Culture's greatest game player, who is sent to play the Empire of Azad's defining game — considered the best entry point to the Culture series and the most intellectually satisfying Banks novel.

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