Sir Demis Hassabis has long had an ambitious plan: to develop artificial-intelligence models capable of curing all diseases. His journey towards realising it has been a circuitous one—few career ...

It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go ...

The “Great Man” theory of history, so long disfavoured, has had something of a renaissance under Donald Trump. It has been finding purchase in Silicon Valley, too, where the leaders of the big AI labs ...

The tattoos on your body can be inked into leather. Eleni Colleony of Manhasset crafts tattooed leather bags. Any design can be tattooed on any product. She learned how to do it herself. "As I was ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could become one of the most momentous developments in human history, comparable to the advent of fire or electricity, and may unfold quickly within the next ...

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis said AGI efforts still leave a lot to be desired. At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, said true artificial general ...

Despite major scientific breakthroughs, Demis Hassabis argues A.I. must overcome critical limitations before achieving true AGI. Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images for SXSW London An A.I. model from ...

Hassabis's crowning achievement came in 2024 when he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for AlphaFold2. Google has lately enjoyed a surge in its AI success with Gemini 3 in the ...

It was a brisk October night as Demis Hassabis and I talked about the stars. There was good reason. For one, place: We were sitting in a London observatory opened in 1929. For another, metaphor: ...

The US enjoying it’s lead in the AI race might not be for very long. According to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google, Deepmind the Chinese AI models are now only “a matter of months” behind their US and ...

A renewed debate over the nature of intelligence has erupted among some of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence, after comments made by Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun were ...