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Game Changer: Demis Hassabis’s Creative AI Revolution
From chess prodigy to DeepMind’s visionary CEO, how Demis Hassabis is redefining AI creativity, multimodality, and the very essence of intelligence
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Introduction
Demis Hassabis stands as a towering figure in the landscape of artificial intelligence. A 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (shared equally with John Jumper, with the other half awarded to David Baker), his work as the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind has not only pushed the boundaries of what AI can achieve but has also provided profound insights into the very nature of intelligence and creativity. His Nobel came on the heels of AlphaFold’s breakthrough in predicting protein structures with near-experimental accuracy — a feat that transformed years of lab work into “science at digital speed.” Yet Hassabis’s story didn’t begin in a lab or lecture hall, but on the checkered board of a chess game, where a precocious teenager first fell in love with strategy, pattern, and the tantalizing question: What is intelligence?
