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The Thinking Game (2024) documentary poster

Documentary Style

Narrative

The Thinking Game

Why Watch

Inside DeepMind with Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis during the race to create artificial general intelligence. Rare access to one of the most ambitious technology quests in history.

Year

2024

Type

film

Runtime

84 min

Language

English

Director

Greg Kohs

Genres

TechnologyBusinessScience

Summary

In 2024, Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize for solving a fifty-year biology challenge: predicting how proteins fold. The breakthrough came from AlphaFold, built in his company's quest for artificial general intelligence.

Filmed over five years inside DeepMind, this documentary follows Hassabis through pivotal moments—crushing setbacks to breakthrough triumph. The film traces his journey from chess prodigy at twelve to game developer at seventeen, neuroscience PhD, to founding DeepMind with one mission: solve intelligence. With inside access, viewers witness the AI race, the protein folding achievement revolutionizing medicine, and the pursuit of AGI.

An inside look at one of technology's most consequential quests.