In the 2020 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, AlphaFold bested all comers in predicting the structure of 100 proteins, based on the sequence of their component amino acids. Will there be any work left for humans to do? In 2011, Hassabis founded the AI company DeepMind Technologies. He additionally stated the corporate was exploring methods of sharing the expertise itself with different ⦠Nd4+ Kb8 20. All Rights Reserved. (Originally his surname was spelt Hassapis) âDemis Hassabis was born in London, England. Demis Hassabis: Yeah. Demis Hassabis: We have over 400 Ph.D.’s just on these two floors. Demis and his family moved frequently as his father pursued a variety of business and creative ventures. was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, Birthday of IM Brandon Clarke (14-xii-1995), Remembering David Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005), Remembering FM Peter Clarke (18-iii-1933 11-xii-2014), Happy Birthday GM Matthew Turner (11-XII-1975), Remembering Joseph Blake (03-ii-1859 11-xii-1951), Best wishes FM Peter Batchelor (10-xii-1996), Remembering IM Bob Wade OBE (10-iv-1921 29-xi-2008) | British Chess News, Remembering Baruch Harold Wood MSc OBE (13-vii-1909 04-iv-1989), Remembering FM Peter Clarke (18-iii-1933 11-xii-2014) | British Chess News, Remembering FM John Littlewood (25-v-1931 16-ix-2009), Remembering Joseph Blake (03-ii-1859 11-xii-1951) | British Chess News, Remembering Henry Bird (14-vii-1830 11-iv-1908), Remembering CGM Keith Bevan Richardson (02-ii-1942 10-iv-2017). In 2005, he sold the intellectual property and technology rights to the games he had created and liquidated Elixir Studios. Really exciting things have happened with machines being able to translate the spoken word. I don’t know if it would be as meaningful if you knew that it was written by a machine. That would have been unsettling for some kids. There are so many areas of science where — I mean science today is all about creating huge amounts of data from the experiments and then trying to make sense of that data. July 27, 1976 Demis Hassabis, the eldest of three, was born in London on July 27, 1976, to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. That’s how Turing was able to come up with that idea. How DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis used chess to get billionaire Peter Thiel to take discover of his AI lab Merrill is paying $ 26 million to New Hampshire, former NH governor, to make clear the allegations What should they be doing now? So it’s got a beat, but it’s got melody as well, but it has to be interesting. The company’s progress in machine learning has married the processes of deep learning and reinforcement learning to create the new field of “deep reinforcement learning.” These processes hold enormous promise for almost every field of scientific study, from medicine to astrophysics. And usually, if you’re interested in the big questions about the universe, you would become a physicist. [SourceQuality "1"] In the London Mind Sports Olympiad, he emerged as the winner of the Pentamind World Championship in five consecutive years, from 1998 to 2003. We have a DeepMind band. Let’s go back to the question of time management. I think that you could really make progress with new materials or new solutions to those problems. Demis Hassabis: We talked a lot about medicine, but I’m very interested in helping astronomers. So I don’t sleep very much. Demis Hassabis: Obviously, it depends on the mood and what I’ve got to do that day, but I generally think a lot about big questions in the late of night. I think that that way you have to interact with a lot of people. In the future, in ten, twenty years’ time, I could imagine the doctor that doesn’t have some kind of AI database that they’re using to keep them up to speed with the latest developments, that’s not a doctor you’d want to see. Demis Hassabis was born in London, England. [SourceDate "2000.11.22"] [SourceTitle "EXT 2001"] And then, a couple of weeks later, I was beating both of them, and then my dad thought, “Maybe we should take him to a chess club,” and it just sort of went from there, really. I think this is also just to do with technology in general. What is your short-term goal to do with all that brainpower? Is there anything in this amazing power that is being unleashed by AI that you’re a little bit worried about? You could analyze satellite imagery in real time so that you could see if icebergs were breaking up, and you could see if deforestation was happening where it wasn’t supposed to be happening. -16,20,-33,-1,25,35,21,51,2,8,-18,-4,-99,-50,-87,-121,-145,-125,-179,-216,-220, At the moment, we value certain things in society, and maybe those things will become less rare and other things will become more rare and more unique. And we know the human brain is a Turing type of machine. Nce2 (14. And you would need to test that — each one — laboriously. [Date "2000.01.22"] What do you think you learned from those years of immersion in the game? In Britain’s 2018 New Year’s Honours, Demis Hassabis was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in May 2018, he was elected a member of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific association. These systems, they’re just machines like cars and planes. Like one moment when you knew you’d found something. We have, actually, a very talented house band that gets together and plays at all of our Christmas parties and other things. So I think humans have an extraordinary, unique part in the universe from that perspective. Demis Hassabis: I think one reason that I think I’ve been successful in creating an unusual company like DeepMind is that I’ve been lucky in life, and I’ve been able to follow many passions that I’ve had. He then played for Barnet Knights, Queens College College Union and Finchley chess clubs. You and I are lucky. How many Ph.D.’s do you have here at DeepMind headquarters? What the kinds of systems we’re building — like AlphaGo and AlphaZero, our new systems — is you can think of them as optimization programs. Demis Hassabis: The obvious thing that’s already happening today has to do with radiography. Is there a particular talent or characteristic that you think accounts for your success? Having proven himself in world games competition and the computer games industry, Hassabis decided to study the working of the human brain to gain further insight into the possibilities of artificial intelligence. The prospect of human-level AI is very exciting, but some people find it very unsettling. His work demonstrating the link between the functions of memory and imagination was named one of the “Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007” by the journal Science. Qg4 Bc7 19. [Site "Birmingham"] Is there anything special you do to spur your creativity? I’ve been told often that I saw my dad and my uncle play a game of chess, and they were just normal amateur players. It worked brilliantly, the scientific method, and that is what has allowed us to have the Enlightenment and modern civilization. That’s an interesting philosophical question. A child chess prodigy, he was coding bestselling computer games while still in his teens. And that’s what AI does. There are all the creative pursuits. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. If further trials are successful, DeepMind will make the technology available for free for the first five years. These are all the things that you are never really taught at school and actually are the most important things — are how to get the best out of yourself. So, suddenly, you can outsource problems to this computer, and it can solve certain types of things for you. My view is that a great novel is also partly because you know the person who has written it was human, and they went through some things, and you can connect to the human condition that they’re describing. What hours of the day do you work best on? But I suspect it’s a very small fraction, like less than five percent. © 1996 - 2020 American Academy of Achievement. So when I’m focusing, I’ll listen to music, different music depending on what mood I’m trying to create. The Industrial Revolution did that. Today, LinkedIn says DeepMind employs 838 people, suggesting Hassabis ⦠How best to bring about these technologies? You could try and create a new material that would capture carbon cheaply out of the atmosphere. And then the idea is that, as we build these technologies, we’ll be able to apply them usefully for the benefit of the world in all sorts of sectors like healthcare and science. His paper in PNAS established for the first time that injury to the hippocampus area of the brain — which causes amnesia — also impairs the patient’s ability to imagine other situations. Demis Hassabis: There are so many ways. You could maybe solve fusion. So, really, the problem is that we know quite a lot about physics; we know a lot about chemistry and a lot about biology; but the combinations of possibilities is huge, right? So it’s very much to do with getting you into the right kind of zone, and I’ve learned a lot about myself. I don’t even remember learning. Demis and his family moved frequently as his father pursued a variety of business and creative ventures. DeepMind’s mission, as Hassabis puts it, is “to solve the problem of intelligence and then use intelligence to solve everything else.”. He always used to have, you know — the toy store was his own company. Nxf5 $2 Bxf4 18. O-O O-O-O 14. Rfd1 I think that actually stood me in good stead in terms of running companies. Demis Hassabis: I think chess — actually, a number of things that I learned when I was young — it wasn’t so much the chess itself; it was the skills that you were training while you were playing chess. You could invent some new, much more efficient, renewable energy. Your email address will not be published. There’s definitely a competition in terms of being the best commercially and trying to get the biggest benefit out of these technologies, but I wouldn’t say it’s a classical arms race. So diagnosis, I imagine, is fairly logical. So the goal is to figure out how proteins fold. And this is all about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything, like how everything works, and that’s what string theory’s about and so on. And I remember thinking, “Was that really a good use of all that brain power?”. Is there anything in science that’s too difficult to look at? Should we adjust what we teach students in school and universities because of the coming changes? And then the second question is making sure you deploy it for the good of the world rather than the bad. Maybe you’d have some theories about things that could work, but you wouldn’t know for sure, as a scientist. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. In an early study, DeepMind AI technology proved it can analyze OCT scans and make diagnoses with 94 percent accuracy, demonstrably better than human experts. Demis Hassabis: Yeah. And I kind of had this thought when I was in a big tournament, actually, in Liechtenstein, near Switzerland, and I remember playing a big match. Demis Hassabis: This goes back to the jobs question. Demis Hassabis: Well, I think the first thing is, you’ve got to know yourself really well. Then the next step will be things like drug discovery, where you’ve got some target, some virus or some bacteria, and you need to generate some new compound that will target that. So he was always doing his own things. Most of our advisers are founders themselves, with an impressive set of companies and exits under their belts. Then it was programming. We could specify a goal clearly to it, some metric, which, I think you probably could with something like climate. I mean it wouldn’t directly solve Alzheimer’s, but it would be something you could use as a tool to help you speed up maybe trials for drugs for Alzheimer’s, but that would be for Alzheimer’s researchers to figure out. Demis Hassabis: I’m against using any of this kind of technology for any kind of military. Even teaching now, his evening classes is his own small little company as well. He also did quite well in the 1997 Mind Sports Olympiad. He showed a precocious aptitude for all games employing logic and strategy. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. And then, I think, probably what’s happening — in neuroscience, I think there’s been some studies about this — is it gets you into a kind of alpha state because this type of modern music is quite repetitive. Demis was a Candidate Master and brother of George Hassapis. Do you see a time when there’s some kind of machine that can automatically translate so that we won’t have to learn languages anymore? At the moment, the U.S. is more advanced than China in this area, so China is putting a lot of focus and money into it. DeepMind is also working with Britain’s National Health Service to develop a mobile app to alert doctors and their patients to the threat of kidney injury. At 17, he joined the computer games company Bullfrog Productions, where he worked as a designer on the game Syndicate and was lead programmer for the highly influential Theme Park. Because I think the world’s becoming unpredictable, and we don’t know what new technology is going to come out, and things are changing very fast. So we need to somehow speed that up. Something’s triggering that. I changed school lots of times, and I think, for a lot of kids, I realize now that would have been unsettling. At DeepMind, he has fused the fields of machine learning with the insights of neuroscience to pursue the goal of “artificial general intelligence” — AGI — a general purpose learning technology with powerful implications for every area of scientific research. Demis Hassabis: I just thought that was normal. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. We’ve always been thinking about the ethics of this from the beginning. They were pretty astounded," DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis told Bloomberg, adding that this is just the beginning. Can you walk us through an example? Actually, one question I would always ask is that, if you were to win the lottery tomorrow, how many people would actually go back to their jobs? So I would like to understand the big questions, like what’s consciousness, what’s going on in our brains, and what’s going on out in the universe. I’ve learned, I think, how to try and get the best out of those people and what sort of cultures that requires. Hassabis had demonstrated the neurological connection between the functions of imagination and episodic memory — both require the ability to construct a scene mentally. This high quality CMYK print is available in three standard sizes and comes in either matte or glossy finish. I use music a lot, actually. Demis Hassabis: We’re going to tackle protein folding. So we moved — I must have moved like ten times before I was around twelve years old. I think there’s an element of that. Demis was born and raised in North London, in the family of a Greek Cypriot and Chinese mother from Singapore. I just thought everybody was like this. I don’t think it’s just the technical grammatical components of the novel. It was my favorite subject all the way up to university, but then I read this book called Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg, who is a Nobel Prize winner, and I must have been in my late teens. It has to be just instrumental. Demis Hassabis: I wouldn’t say so. And once you’ve heard it a few times, it’s almost in the background, and I think it’s just getting your brain into some kind of rhythm, which I find better for focusing. What were you thinking? What motivates you? Identifying the goal is one of the very key things, certainly in the way we build our AI systems, where it’s called “reinforcement learning,” where they learn incrementally to progress towards their goal. The other thing I use is I really like film. Hassabis was born to a father from Greece and Cyprus and a mother of Chinese Singapore. From https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/ : Demis Hassabis, the eldest of three, was born in London on July 27, 1976, to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. Of course, they don’t really understand language at all. They thought, “Well, we’ll just…” you know, humor me and just teach me the rules. We pay doctors a lot more than nurses, as a society. In late 2017, co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said DeepMind had doubled its headcount to 700 over the previous 12 months. So I think that’s going to result in much more efficient diagnosis and much more efficient treatment. Could you tell us a little more about that? When I was a kid, I was actually — my favorite subject was physics. Demis Hassabis: What happens is, you know, if you think about — it’s a massive combinatorial problem. And I realized from quite young, that’s one of the reasons I liked chess was this is a great practice for me to get good — sort of like a mental gym, if you like — to get really good at those other skills, which you could then translate to all sorts of other subjects like science or business. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. His achievement was cited as one of the “Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of the Year” by the journal Science. And then once I’ve watched a great film, I can usually retrigger that mood or that emotion just by watching a small clip on YouTube of that film, and I can pretty much evoke the whole of that emotional state, reconstruct that for whatever it is I’m doing in that moment. This is where neuroscience comes in. How can you accelerate your own learning no matter what subject you’re learning? Demis Hassabis, the eldest of three, was born in London on July 27, 1976, to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. That obviously was for obvious reasons because it’s to do with artificial intelligence and the nature of being human. What is the brain? But he did a whole host of different things, and he was very entrepreneurial. I think there’s always more questions. Demis Hassabis: Well, right now robots can do anything basically. There’s this whole new class of jobs that’s come up. The sessions will convene under Chatham House ⦠Demis Hassabis: Yeah. There could be negative consequences as well as positive ones. So I don’t think there’s a sort of classical arms race. It could be enhanced by AI. I’ve always been a nocturnal person. While I have to focus, it can’t have words because then your brain starts listening to the words. Demis was SCCU Under-18 champion in 1989 and was presented with the “old Trophy” according to the SCCU report. They can find the most valuable things that make the most impact and make a difference in those areas if they have that kind of generalized training, rather than subject-specific training, which has been the sort of history of schooling in the last century or so. Demis Hassabis Co-Founder and CEO DeepMind. He was a Wellcome Fellow at the UCL Neuroscience Unit. 2. Demis Hassabis is a celebrated British Neuroscientist and AI Expert who has several highly cited papers already. It was a ZX Spectrum. Demis Hassabis: So I dedicate my life to, you know, artificial intelligence — which is obviously what we do at DeepMind — but really, the underlying reason I work in artificial intelligence is I want to understand how the universe works. Demis Hassabis: I think they should learn how to get the best for themselves and what they’re passionate about. He was also a highly successful competitor in six different seasons of the World Series of Poker. Here, Q is the mean action value (average reward), cpuct is a constant determining the level of exploration (set as 1), P(s=state,a=action) is the prior probability of choosing action a given by the policy output of the neural net, N(s,a) is the number of times the branch corresponding to action a has been visited.The N ⦠We’re looking at quantum chemistry. While running Elixir, Hassabis continued to participate in international games competition. How is this going to change warfare? So maybe it would be good if we can relieve people from that drudgery and yet still make sure that they share in the productivity gains and the prosperity that that new productivity will create. [ECO "B22"] ... 10 Things You Didnât Know about Demis Hassabis. We’re looking at a whole bunch of areas. They still need vast amounts of data. 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