Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

# Google DeepMind's Leader Started with a Game-Playing Computer as a Kid Demis Hassabis, who now runs Google's powerful AI division, first fell in love with artificial intelligence at age 11 when he programmed a computer to play the board game Othello—and it beat his younger brother. That childhood "aha moment" set him on a path that eventually led him to start DeepMind, the AI company Google bought and merged with its other AI team, putting Hassabis in charge of some of the most widely-used AI tools today, including the Gemini model that powers features in Gmail, Google Search, and other products millions of people use every day.