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Dan Sukhov

@den_point • 4m

Have you ever been offered money for not going to university? Demis Hassabis was offered. And not just money, but $1 million. Demis Hassabis is the name that stands behind the biggest breakthroughs in AI today. In his youth, he was the London chess champion, adored computers and spent hours trying to understand how systems are trained and how intelligence can be formalized. When he was 17, Peter Thiel offered him $1 million to skip university and start entrepreneurship right away. Hassabis refused. He chose Cambridge because he was not interested in startup craft, but in fundamental ideas of thinking and learning. In 2011, he and his colleagues created DeepMind. The first experiments are a simple AI playing electronic table tennis. Investors were skeptical, but Thiel himself was one of the first to invest in the team. Below 👇

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Ansh

Learn and Grow • 4m

DAMN... I didn't know that and the amount at which google acquired deepmind considering the fact that now how important role it is playing for google now is crazy😐

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Dan Sukhov

@den_point • 4m

DeepMind stayed in London, deliberately choosing to distance itself from Silicon Valley. Later, Google acquired the company for about $400,000, an amount that today looks symbolic. 2017 was the year of recognition. DeepMind's algorithm beat the leading go players — first the Korean, then the Chinese champion. The broadcast in China was stopped when it became clear that the person was losing. This moment has become a strategic signal for the entire state.: AI is not an experiment, but a new technological race. The AlphaZero project has become the next milestone. The algorithm was trained exclusively on its own batches — without human experience. It was a step towards systems that form knowledge from scratch. At the same time, DeepMind built the first AI agents with a reward system for successful actions. This approach allowed us to simulate complex behavior and move on to StarCraft—level tasks, an environment with continuous solutions and high dynamics.

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