THE THINKING GAME
Sun, Feb 02
|Epsilon Spires
Take a fascinating journey into the heart of one of the world's leading AI labs. Following the development of a Nobel Prize winning project over 5 years, this new documentary invites us to discuss AI’s impact on science, medicine and society while considering the ethical aspects of AI.
Time & Location
Feb 02, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
The Thinking Game (2024, Dir. Greg Kohs) takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI labs, as it strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Filmed over five years, this documentary puts viewers in the room for the pivotal moments of this quest, including the groundbreaking achievement of AlphaFold, a program that solved a 50-year grand challenge in biology. Following the film will be an informal community discussion on the topic with refreshments.
Demis Hassabis has always been thinking about thinking. It started during his childhood career as a chess champion, continued to Bullfrog Games where he helped develop one of the most successful games in history at just 17 years old, and then followed him through his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. All this led him to co-founding DeepMind, an artificial general intelligence company with…