| Sep-21-08 | | biglo: This is the guy who retired from chess aged 12 and rated around 2300 (then supposedly the strongest rated 12 yr old). |
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| Mar-12-09 | | JaneEyre: <"It would be very easy not to co-operate, and then it wouldn't work," said Demis Hassabis, who developed the computer programme to read the data. "These kind of scenarios would require a great technological leap."> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7... |
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| Jan-28-14 | | wordfunph: Demis Hassabis' success story outside chess..
<British chess prodigy sells artificial intelligence software firm to Google for £242million> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet... |
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Jan-28-14
 | | kingscrusher: Congrats to Demis :)
I beat him in a school match at QE once :) |
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Jan-28-14
 | | perfidious: Hassabis faced off with some tough hombres as a youngster. |
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| Jan-27-16 | | Kwesi: "Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion" (inc. Demis Hassabis interview). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog... |
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Feb-21-16
 | | MissScarlett: <The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?> http://www.theguardian.com/technolo... <At the ages [sic] of 13 Hassabis reached the rank of chess master, and was the second-highest-rated player in the world under 14 at the time – beaten only by the Hungarian chess grandmaster and strongest female chess player in history, Judit Polgár.> http://www.theguardian.com/technolo... What was Hassabis's peak rating when he was 13? One assumes this claim of rank/status of chess master refers to the current FM title qualifying level of 2300 ELO, but what was the standard back in 1989? The biography above claims Hassabis is a Candidate Master, a title that Wikipedia states was only introduced in 2002. Assuming that information is correct, when was this award made? |
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Feb-21-16
| | MissScarlett: The only thing I've discovered so far is that Demis, and his younger brother, George, are known to the chess literature of the late 1980s as <Hassapis>. <Hassabis> is a less-common variant: http://forebears.io/surnames/hassapis |
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| Mar-14-16 | | dehanne: <DeepMind Technologies, the developer of AlphaGo, was founded by British Artificial Intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis in 2010, and specialized in building general-purpose learning algorithms. Hassabis, a former chess prodigy in his own right, rated no.2 in the world in the under-14 category just 35 Elo behind Judit Polgar who was no.1, has always had a particular fascination for games, and not just chess. He won the world games championship a record five times, being also an expert in Shogi, poker and Diplomacy to name a few.> http://en.chessbase.com/post/alphag... |
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| Mar-15-20 | | SkySports: Interesting interview on BBC World Service: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3... |
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| Apr-25-20 | | wordfunph: "The reason that I could not become a professional chess player is that it didn’t feel productive enough somehow." - Demis Hassabis
taken from NICM 2016 June |
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Oct-09-24
 | | BishopBerkeley: Sir Demis Hassabis just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared), "for protein structure prediction" using AlphaFold2 (developed within Google DeepMind): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/c... Congratulations, Sir Demis! :) More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis... |
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Oct-10-24
| | kingscrusher: I think the Chessgames.com details here need updating with that Nobel prize news :) Lots of reddit discussion about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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| Oct-10-24 | | stone free or die: Chess was involved in the creation of DeepMind: <On an in-house podcast produced by DeepMind Hassabis tells the story of how, once again, a game came to his rescue. He had researched his target and found that they had a common passion for chess.In his minute with the billionaire he explained that, while the bishop and knight were worth the same, their different powers produced a creative asymmetry that made chess a fascinating game. ‘I don’t know how I managed to crowbar that into a drinks party, but it made him stop and think, which is exactly what I was hoping.’ The next day Hassabis and his team were invited back to pitch their business idea, and this investor and a couple of others agreed to supply the few million dollars needed to get DeepMind started."> https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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Oct-10-24
| | MissScarlett: Is the award for the development of AI/DeepMind itself or specifically for work on proteins? |
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| Oct-10-24 | | stone free or die: For protein folding. |
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