The Thinking Game: This documentary from 2024 takes us behind the scenes with Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, showing how they taught their algorithms to play video games, chess, and Go, before moving on to protein folding. It’s compellingly told, though it sidesteps what was happening simultaneously at OpenAI and elsewhere. For free on YouTube.
Summary
- The journey of building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- Follows the development of AI, from initial funding struggles to achievements in games and sciene.
- Shows the evolution of algorithms and some ethical considerations surrounding this technology.
