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,…
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