Who's Who: The 6 Top Thinkers In AI And Machine Learning

Hassabis is a co-founder of Deep Mind, a UK AI startup acquired by Google in 2014. His work has focused on the development of artificial neural networks by combining machine learning with neuroscience. Deep Mind's most publicised success so far has been its AlphaGo AI which last year became the first computer programme to beat a professional human Go player. Before this breakthrough, even the best AIs were only capable of playing at the level of human amateurs and could be defeated by most people with practice.