Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind has shared an online post celebrating the success of viral documentary “The Thinking Game” on YouTube. Sharing an X (formerly Twitter) post, Hassabis said “‘The Thinking Game’ documentary has just passed 200M views on YouTube in just 4 weeks!”. “Perfect holiday viewing if you’re interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how an AGI lab works, or what goes into making a Nobel Prize winning project like AlphaFold happen,” he added. In another post, Hassabis praised the director and producer of the documentary. “Amazing work from the incredibly talented Director Greg Kohs, Producers Gary Kreig & Jonathan Fildes, and a wonderful score from the maestro Dan Deacon,” he wrote.
‘The Thinking Game’: A documentary about Google DeepMind
The documentary was released on November 25 on Google DeepMind YouTube channel for free. “Filmed over five years by the award-winning team behind AlphaGo, the new film takes viewers into the heart of our AI lab, Google DeepMind, as the team strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI),” the company said in a blog post.The feature-length documentary follows Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and his team during pivotal moments, including the moment the AlphaFold team found out they had solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, a breakthrough that went on to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the blog post stated.Born on 27 July 1976 in London, United Kingdom, Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all known proteins. AlphaFold2 has been widely used in many areas, including research into pharmaceuticals and environmental technology.