Demis Hassabis

Cofounder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Demis Hassabis is the cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI research companies.

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Demis Hassabis has led teams of computer scientists behind AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first technology to beat the human world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which cracked the grand challenge of protein folding. His work aims to solve intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in October 2024 for protein structure prediction.

Demis Hassabis’ TED Talk

Demis Hassabis
How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe
25 minutes 33 seconds
Can AI help us answer life's biggest questions? In this visionary conversation, Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible capabilities of AI with head of TED Chris Anderson. Hassabis explains how AI models like AlphaFold — which accurately predicted the shapes of all 200 million proteins known to science in under a year — have already accelerated scientific discovery in ways that will benefit humanity. Next up? Hassabis says AI has the potential to unlock the greatest mysteries surrounding our minds, bodies and the universe.
Posted Apr 2024

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Demis Hassabis

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Demis Hassabis’ TED Talk

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Dreamers: Notes on Session 1 of TED2024