How Google DeepMind CEO Went From Chess to AI, Nobel Prize | Entrepreneur

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess.

Years before Hassabis would receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating an AI program that predicted protein structures, he was a child chess champion who started playing the game at the age of four. By age 13, he was a chess master competing against adults in international competitions.

In a lecture earlier this month at the University of Cambridge, Hassabis, now 48,…