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 even surpasses human abilities on a wide range of tasks. Filmed over five years, the documentary lets viewers witness crucial moments in Habbasis's career, including the development of AlphaFold, a programme that solved a fifty-year-old problem 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, it illuminates the real positive impacts AI can have, from a simple chess game to a potential cure for cancer.