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Demis Hassabis      

Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind

Before embarking on his artificial intelligence research career, Demis Hassabis was a well-known UK video game designer and AI programmer. Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In his early career he was a video game AI programmer and designer, and an expert board games player. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Advisor.

In 1998, Hassabis founded and ran his own 60-person development studio, called Elixir Studios, producing games for Microsoft and Vivendi Universal. His company contributed to many best-selling and award-winning games over a successful 10-year career, including: "Syndicate" (1993), "Theme Park" (1994), "Black & White" (2001), "Republic" (2003), and "Evil Genius" (2004). Hassabis also plays many games to an accomplished level including chess, shogi and poker. He even won the World Games Championships at the Mind Sports Olympiad a record five times before retiring from competitive play in 2003.

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Google’s DeepMind Health aims to improve health care through technology
DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence outfit that Google acquired for around $500 million in 2014, has managed more than a few impressive feats of computer engineering. It’s built a system that can teach itself how to play 49 different Atari video games, and more recently designed the world’s first neural network capable of beating a human player at Go. But the team’s broader ambitions are more philanthropic in nature: on Wednesday, Google announced DeepMind Health, a program designed to aid health workers in identifying patients at risk of dangerous complications.

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