In this episode, we profile Sir Demis Hassabis, the British AI pioneer who transformed a lifelong obsession with strategy and games into a Nobel Prize-winning scientific career,.

We trace his early life as a child chess prodigy who reached master standard at age 13 and his teenage years as a lead programmer on the hit video game Theme Park,. We explore his time in the gaming industry working on titles like Black & White and Evil Genius, followed by his pivot to academia to obtain a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, where he sought to use the human brain as a model for artificial intelligence,,.

Finally, we discuss the founding of Google DeepMind and its ambitious mission to "solve intelligence" to solve everything else. We cover the company’s historic milestones, from