The best documentary about the creation of AI
This is the legendary documentary, which has garnered over 250 million views and become the definitive proof of how humanity has cracked the secret of intelligence. This is the story of Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), a chess prodigy who, as a teenager, chose to abandon university with a million-dollar grant from Peter Thiel to invest those resources in the bold idea of creating a digital mind. From AI's triumphant victories over world champions in Go and chess to the 2024 Nobel Prize for a breakthrough in biology, Hassabis has proven that artificial intelligence is not just an algorithm, but a tool for deciphering the structure of 200 million proteins (AlphaFold) and creating cures for diseases once considered incurable. See how one man and his team turned science fiction into reality, giving us a chance for a future where AI designs salvation for each unique DNA.
English source from November 25, 2025: • The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tri...
I run the "AI Firsthand" channel because I want to hear the original sources in Russian—from the people who now make up the AI industry: Altman, Zuckerberg, Harari, Musk. So I'm translating and posting them here so you can listen to them on headphones without English and without distortion. I'd be happy if you subscribe to the channel.
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Timecodes:
00:00 — "Alpha" in the real world: first dialogues and first mistakes
01:34 — The world in panic: media hype and the AI race
01:53 — Demis: the purpose of life is AGI and "AI is more important than the internet"
03:14 — Neuroscience, Shane Legge, and the decision to build a company
06:44 — Peter Thiel, relocation/London and the bet on DeepMind
07:18 — DeepMind's mission: "a universal learning machine"
09:06 — Why games: reinforcement learning and starting with Atari
10:03 — Breakthrough: an agent learns to play (Pong/Breakout) and becomes superhuman
12:19 — Lack of computing power and the sale to Google: betting on scale
14:27 — AlphaGo: the "holy grail of AI" and a match with Lee Sedol
19:26 — "Sputnik Moment": AlphaGo Launches a Global AI Race
20:20 — AlphaZero: Learning from Scratch and a Leap in Versatility
22:08 — The Origins of Demis: Chess, Games, and an Early "Taste" of AI
46:17 — The Protein Folding Problem: Why AlphaFold and Why It Matters
56:03 — CASP and AlphaFold: Failures, Breakthroughs, and the Discovery of 200 Million Structures for the World
01:17:49 — The Finale: Accelerating Progress, Responsibility, and "AGI on the Horizon"
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