Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

A decade ago, Hassabis’s lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world’s deepest board game. The lessons still drive his work today.

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In 1988, a London pre-teen with a penchant for programming and gaming wrote a version of the classic board game Othello—also known as Reversi—for his Amiga 500 home computer. Teaching a piece of software to play the game was an ambitious coding project for someone so young.

And with that, Demis Hassabis notched his first achievement in the field of........

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