International Films Out of Competition
United States, 2024, 84 min
Director:
Greg Kohs
Language and Subtitles:
Eng with Hebrew subtitles
Participants
Demis Hassabis
Festivals & Prizes:
Tribeca Film Festival
The Thinking Game
Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, leads the race to the development of arterial general intelligence (AGI). The film follows the milestones of Hassabis’s unusual life, from his childhood as a prodigy chess player. Today, Hassabis seeks to develop artificial intelligence that would surpass human abilities in a wide range of areas – from chess to medicine. The film showcases Hassabis’s ambitious vision together with the moral dilemmas arising in the course of developing his trailblazing technology. The viewers are introduced to the ongoing effort to crack the mystery of intelligence, and to the huge lifechanging potential of artificial intelligence.