The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI

If you don't follow science news much, you may only be aware of Artificial Intelligence as a new-fangled thingy that somehow makes TikToks of kittens singing versions of Don't You Want Me Like I Want You Baby in an ickle kid voice. If that's your level of engagement with AI, then this competent, fluent documentary offers a very approachable entry into the subject. As it happens, DeepMind is now officially called Google DeepMind and is part of a suite of divisions developing robotics and solving problems using AI – sorry, AGI because it's not just Artificial Intelligence we're talking about here, but Artificial General Intelligence (it gets explained). The fact that Google and its tech overlords are involved, however amiable they seem when seen in their office casual dress (former CEO Eric Schmidt at least), means this has more than a little flavour of corporate video, investor-fluffing, and self-congratulatory smugness about it. But DeepMind's British founder and CEO Demis Hassabis manages to come across as a pretty nice guy with a genuinely interesting backstory.