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The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?

 

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

With his company DeepMind, Londoner Demis Hassabis is leading Google’s project to build software more powerful than the human brain. But what will this mean for the future of humankind?

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My first encounter with Hassabis was back in the summer of 2014, a few months after the DeepMind acquisition. Since then, I’ve observed him at work in a variety of environments and have interviewed him formally for this profile on three separate occasions over the past eight months. In that time I’ve watched him evolve from Google’s AI genius to a compelling communicator who has found an effective way to describe to non-scientists like me his vastly complex work – about which he is infectiously passionate – and why it matters. Unpretentious and increasingly personable, he is very good at breaking down DeepMind’s approach; namely their combining of old and new AI techniques – such as, in Go, using traditional “tree search” methods for analysing moves with modern “deep neural networks”, which approximate the web of neurons in the brain – and also their methodical “marriage” of different areas of AI research.

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