Demis Hassabis Resources Aggregate

Talks / Video

Pre-Alphago BBC Pentamind Interview [2014] BBC Interview Desert Island Discs [2017] Systems Neuroscience and AGI [Winter Intelligence Conference] [2011] Singularity Summit Talk [2011] FDOT14 Atari Talk Breakout Demo Is AI the Problem or The Solution Google Zeitgeist Talk [2015] Breaking the Wall to Mind Machines [2015] Studio Giochi Interview [2015] (Conversation that blew my mind) Royal Society Public Lecture [2015] Future Capabilities of AI [2015] ICML DL Workshop Panel [2015] NIPS 2015 Symposium [2015] Towards General Artificial Intelligence (MIT CBMM) [2016] Games are a microcosm of real-world problems [2016] AI and the Future: RSA Replay Interview [2016] Seminar at KAIST [2016] Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines at Microsoft Research [2016] Royal Academy of Engineering Lecture [2016] Campus Chats: Google for Startups [2017] CSAR Talk: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge [2017] Superintelligence: Science or Fiction? [2017] Explorations in Optimality (Beneficial AGI) [2017] Academy Class of 2017 Interview [2017] Learning from First Principles (NIPS) [2017] Creativity and AI Lecture [2018] AlphaGo Documentary [2017] Cheltenham Science Festival [2018] AI and the Future [2019] Stanford HAI Panel Discussion [2019] The Power of Self-Learning Systems [2019] Deepmind Podcast Interview [2020]

Other Video Playlists: Demis Hassabis, HUmAI Club Demis Hassabis, Mingway Huang Demis Hassabis, Kim Jong-lol Papers Cited First Author Publications Only. Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences [2007] Using imagination to understand the Neural Basis of Episodic Memory [2007] Decoding Neuronal Ensembles in the Hippocampus [2009] Writing http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~demis (link got Redirected to Deepmind, using Wayback Machine) https://goo.gl/YTgrNu (linked in) https://twitter.com/demishassabis Articles http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/47aa9aa4-a7a5-11e4-be63-00144feab7de.html Quality Article from The Information Interview with an Evil Genius Deepmind - Google: Who’s in Charge?

Background

Chess Child Prodigy - Second highest ranked player in the world under 14. Created games as a developer at Bullfrog Productions BA in Computer Science at University of Cambridge Build Reinforcement Learning AI at Lionhead Studios for Video Game Founded Elixir Studios, Video Game Company, at age 22. CEO. 7 years, until 29. Pentamind World Games Champion (5 times!) 1998-2003 PHD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, Age 29-34. Gatsby Computational Neuroscience unit, 2009-2011, Age 34-35. Founded DeepMind at Age 35. Google DeepMind VP of Engineering after Acquisition

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning Episodic Memory Hippocampus Systems Neuroscience

Links: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~demis (link got Redirected to Deepmind, using Wayback Machine) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/47aa9aa4-a7a5-11e4-be63-00144feab7de.html https://goo.gl/YTgrNu (linked in) Quality Article from The Information Interview with an Evil Genius BBC Interview Deepmind - Google: Who’s in Charge? https://twitter.com/demishassabis

He decided to found Deepmind in 1996-7, so he founded his games company to get expertise so that he would understand the business world.

“In 1994 he went to Cambridge university to study computer science but he was unconvinced by some of the teaching that focused on “narrow” AI, which relies on programmers to attach “labels” to data in order for a computer to make sense of information. “I remember distinctly one lecture, where I said to my friends around me, ‘We shouldn’t listen to this, they’re brainwashing us.’ I said that slightly too loud and the lecturer called me out and said, ‘If you think you know everything, you shouldn’t come here.’ ” Hassabis walked out of the lecture hall.”

“But how does Hassabis lead a group of people like this? “You can’t just say, ‘I’m the CEO, so you do this.’ You’ve got to lead by example and respect for your own work. It’s not why I did a PhD . . . but to lead a team like this, I need academic qualities . . . ” For once, he struggles to explain himself. You need credentials that are unimpeachable, I say? “Unimpeachable. That’s the right word.”

Heroes: Charles Babbage Alan Turing

Source: Original Google Doc