How Google Cornered the Brains Behind AI | THE THINKING MACHINE Pt 3

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After the 2012 breakthrough, the men behind it auctioned themselves to the highest bidder — and Geoffrey Hinton, who couldn't sit because of a bad back, ran the whole thing by email from a hotel room. Bids hit forty-four million dollars; he chose Google. Then Google bought DeepMind, the London lab founded by chess prodigy Demis Hassabis, for a reported six hundred and fifty million, beating Facebook to it. Soon one company owned almost every great mind in AI — which terrified Elon Musk enough to help start OpenAI and pull away Google's own star, Ilya Sutskever. And in 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo beat the world's best Go player with a move a human would play once in ten thousand times. Follow for Part 4 — THE EIGHT PAGES. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and figures are verified. #AI #DeepMind #AlphaGo #Google #OpenAI #artificialintelligence #tech #documentary