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The chess maestro who's the brains behind Google’s AI push

The chess maestro who's the brains behind Google’s AI push
Demis Hassabis was a chess prodigy in his teen years and helped to create a hit videogame before he started university. (Image: Carlotta Cardana, The Wall Street Journal)
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By Miles KruppaDemis Hassabis, the neuroscientist tasked with keeping Google at the vanguard of artificial intelligence, was on a hot streak. Then the AI went haywire.Google’s AI chatbot began angering users with biased and ahistoric responses. Hassabis wanted to make something clear: it wasn’t the intended behaviour of the system his team built.“There’s more nuances there than I think the product folks fine-tuning these things further down the line had realised,” Hassabis said in a February interview with The Wall...

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