Maastricht Young Academy: The Thinking Game
Documentary about Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry in 2024, who aims to develop AI technologies with a positive impact on the world. Followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Katleen Gabriels, Associate Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology (language: English).
MYA is a group of early-career researchers who have come together with the aim of providing an independent – and if necessary, critical – platform within Maastricht University. At Lumière, we enjoy collaborating with MYA to explore and discuss various (current) topics through film. With the purchase of a ticket, you will receive a drink token.
The panelists will later be announced.
The Thinking Game
Documentary about Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry in 2024, who aims to develop AI technologies with a positive impact on the world.
The Thinking Game takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, as it strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Inside DeepMind’s London headquarters, founder Demis Hassabis and his team are relentlessly pursuing the creation of AI that matches or surpasses human abilities on a wide range of tasks. Filmed over five years, the documentary puts viewers in the room for the pivotal moments of this quest, including the groundbreaking achievement of AlphaFold, a program that solved a fifty-year grand challenge in biology.
The Thinking Game captures the exhilaration of historic breakthroughs and the crushing weight of disappointment during setbacks. Balancing the weight of the massive responsibility this kind of technology requires, The Thinking Game illuminates the real positive impacts AI can have, from a simple chess game to curing cancer.