Meet Fetch, the AI creation of DeepMind pioneers who refuse to succumb to Google

Google battled Facebook to acquire artificial intelligence lab DeepMind in 2014 for a reported $660 million - but not everyone was happy with the move. "How in the world can you build a truly neutral artificial general intelligence under that company?" questions Humayun Sheikh, an early investor who helped London-based DeepMind commercialise the AI technology that Google now owns. Sheikh, who personally donated to DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis during the technology's very early stages, cut ties with the firm when it was sold to Google four years ago. DeepMind software lead Toby Simpson, creator of the "Creatures" game series in the 1990s, left the company. He believed the Google acquisition...