For Demis Hassabis and his colleagues at DeepMind, the cube is a symbol for how the solution to one problem can lead to the solution of many others. One of the cube sides shows move 37, the decisive move in a game of Go where the master Lee Sedol lost in 2016 against the AlphaGo program that had been developed by DeepMind. This was the first time a top-level master lost against a computer, and the event is a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo was followed by AlphaZero, which plays chess, Shogi and Go. AlphaFold, which was developed later, can predict the thee-dimensional structure of protein molecules.
Demis Hassabis donated the cube to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024.
The book Game Changer by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan is about the computer program AlphaZero, developed by Demis Hassabis and his colleagues at DeepMind. The introduction is written by Hassabis and the foreword by Garry Kasparov, who in 1997 was the first world champion chess player to lose against a computer.
Demis Hassabis donated the book to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024.
As a four-year-old, Demis Hassabis devoted a lot of his time to chess. His interest in chess eventually led to an interest in computers that could play chess. Hassabis devoted himself increasingly to computers and artificial intelligence (AI). He participated in creating the AI model AlphaFold, which can predict the three-dimensional structure of protein molecules.
Demis Hassabis donated this picture to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024.
