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Alfago is a computer programme that can learn to beat itself in real time. It was developed by the same team behind alfa zero, which played chess against itself and went from knowing nothing other than the rules of chess to being the greatest chess player ever lived. Alfago uses an adversarial model where you have two versions of the sophar playing against each other with different strategies. The system has also been used for games such as agnosticism or starcraft.

Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis is thinking through some of the most revolutionary — and in some cases controversial — uses of artificial intelligence. From the development of computer program AlphaGo, which beat out world champions in the board game Go, to making leaps in the research of how proteins fold, Demis is at the helm of the next generation of groundbreaking technology. In this episode, he gives a peek into some of the questions that his top-level projects are asking, talks about how gaming, creativity, and intelligence inform his approach to tech, and muses on where AI is headed next.

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