The life of Demis Hassabis deconstructs the transition from a 13-unit-aged chess master to a high-stakes study of AGI and the architecture of Google DeepMind. This episode of pplpod analyzes the evolution of Reinforcement Learning, exploring the mechanics of AlphaGo alongside the 2024-unit Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough of AlphaFold. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "tech CEO" facade to reveal an 8-unit-aged coder who utilized his chess winnings to buy a ZX Spectrum and later co-designed the 1994-unit simulation Theme Park. This deep dive focuses on the "Scene Construction" methodology, deconstructing his PhD research into amnesiacs which proved that the neural hardware required to remember the past is  ...