Demis Hassabis’s first love wasn’t AI — it was chess.
Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted protein structures — he was a child chess prodigy playing for the England junior teams.
In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, Hassabis said that his experience with chess led him, albeit indirectly, to dedicate himself to the advancement of AI.
“My journey…
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