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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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