Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher
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| 2024 | Knighted for services to AI. |
| 2024 | Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, highlighting his groundbreaking contributions to scientific research. |
| 2024 | Demis Hassabis is the main subject of the documentary 'The Thinking Game', which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. |
| 2024 | Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for AI research contributions in protein structure prediction. |
| 2024 | Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, highlighting his groundbreaking contributions to scientific research. |
| 2024 | Demis Hassabis is the main subject of the documentary 'The Thinking Game', which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. |
| 2024 | Knighted for services to AI. |
| 2024 | Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for AI research contributions in protein structure prediction. |
| 2023 | Hassabis signs a statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, highlighting his ongoing commitment to AI safety research. |
| 2023 | Won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, a revolutionary AI system that accurately predicts protein structures. |
| 2023 | Won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, a revolutionary AI system that accurately predicts protein structures. |
| 2023 | Hassabis signs a statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, highlighting his ongoing commitment to AI safety research. |
| 2022 | Received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, shared with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun. |
| 2022 | Received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, shared with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun. |
| 2021 | DeepMind used AlphaFold 2 to fold all 200 million known proteins and made the system and protein structures freely available through the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, developed in collaboration with EMBL-EBI. |
| 2021 | DeepMind used AlphaFold 2 to fold all 200 million known proteins and made the system and protein structures freely available through the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, developed in collaboration with EMBL-EBI. |
| November 2020 | DeepMind announced AlphaFold 2, which achieved a median global distance test (GDT) score of 87.0, significantly improving upon the 2018 results and making protein structure prediction competitive with experimental methods. |
| November 2020 | DeepMind announced AlphaFold 2, which achieved a median global distance test (GDT) score of 87.0, significantly improving upon the 2018 results and making protein structure prediction competitive with experimental methods. |
| December 2018 | AlphaFold won the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), successfully predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, which Hassabis described as a 'lighthouse project'. |
| December 2018 | AlphaFold won the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), successfully predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins, which Hassabis described as a 'lighthouse project'. |
| May 2018 | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a prestigious recognition of his scientific achievements. |
| May 2018 | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a prestigious recognition of his scientific achievements. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours for 'services to Science and Technology'. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and listed in Time 100 most influential people. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours for 'services to Science and Technology'. |
| 2017 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and listed in Time 100 most influential people. |
| 2016 | DeepMind began focusing its artificial intelligence efforts on protein folding, addressing a 50-year scientific challenge of predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences. |
| 2016 | DeepMind began focusing its artificial intelligence efforts on protein folding, addressing a 50-year scientific challenge of predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences. |
| March 2016 | AlphaGo wins 4-1 against former world champion Lee Sedol in the complex game of Go, a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. |
| March 2016 | AlphaGo wins 4-1 against former world champion Lee Sedol in the complex game of Go, a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. |
| October 2015 | DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats European Go champion Fan Hui 5-0, demonstrating significant progress in AI game-playing capabilities. |
| October 2015 | DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats European Go champion Fan Hui 5-0, demonstrating significant progress in AI game-playing capabilities. |
| 2014 | Google purchases DeepMind for £400 million, marking a significant milestone in the company's development. |
| 2014 | Google purchases DeepMind for £400 million, marking a significant milestone in the company's development. |
| 2013 | Listed on WIRED's 'Smart 50', acknowledging his innovative contributions to technology and science. |
| 2013 | Listed on WIRED's 'Smart 50', acknowledging his innovative contributions to technology and science. |
| December 2013 | DeepMind announces a breakthrough in AI by training a Deep Q-Network (DQN) algorithm to play Atari games at a superhuman level using only raw pixel inputs. |
| December 2013 | DeepMind announces a breakthrough in AI by training a Deep Q-Network (DQN) algorithm to play Atari games at a superhuman level using only raw pixel inputs. |
| 2010 | Demis Hassabis co-founds DeepMind in London with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, establishing a machine learning AI startup aimed at solving intelligence. |
| 2010 | Demis Hassabis co-founds DeepMind in London with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, establishing a machine learning AI startup aimed at solving intelligence. |
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