Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M

Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by csense on Sunday January 26, 2014 @10:16PM (#7128544)

The DeepMind website [1] links to cofounder Demis Hassabis' biography on Wikipedia [2]. Read it. This guy is a world-class hacker!

[1] http://deepmind.com

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by yen223 on Monday January 27, 2014 @02:52AM (#7129294)

He did the AI for Black & White? My respect for him has just increased by an order of magnitude. Black & White's creature AI was nothing short of amazing.

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by psykotic on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:14AM (#7129351)

My second-hand impression is that Richard Evans is responsible for most of what actually shipped in the game's creature AI. As the Wikipedia article says, Demis only briefly held the title of Lead AI Programmer on the project.

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by jfields513 on Sunday January 26, 2014 @11:48PM (#7128877)

That's a nice c.v., but he definitely wrote his own wikipedia article.

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by diydsp on Monday January 27, 2014 @12:11AM (#7128930)

I'm usually skeptical of these kinds of vanity articles (and seeing many more lately), but this one kind of checks out [1]. It's got edits by many different IP addresses and handles stretching across nine years.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demis_Hassabis&dir...

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by nl on Monday January 27, 2014 @12:36AM (#7128987)

I guess DeepMind's AI Wikipedia bot works pretty well.

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