Founder of DeepMind AI was an Amiga guy?
Saw this video about Deep Mind.
https://youtu.be/kFlLzFuslfQ Never really thought about the connection before, but it turns out the founder Demis Hassabis had an Amiga as a kid (started with a zx pectrum though) and programmed chess programs. Also, he worked at Bullfrog where he did some level design work on Syndicate as well as work on Theme Park. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis |
In the Theme Park manual he is listed as 'Creator and PC Programming' alongside Molyneux: https://hol.abime.net/1372/manual
Can give a time stamp where they talk about his Amiga? |
Demis entered the "Win a Job at Bullfrog" competition with Chess Invaders and this led to working at Bullfrog, although Mike Diskett won overall with Mr Wobbly Leg Versus The Invaders From Space.
See Amiga Power issue 16, page 65 onwards. |
Kim Justice spills the beans on Bullfrog in "the rise and fall of Peter Molineux". Indeed Demis Hassabis passes by as the lead programmer of Theme Park. I guess that kind of explains why it is a hardcore financial sim as much as a theme park builder if a person who develops chess games as a hobby creates it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0 (first mention around 15:30 and then again at 24:30) |
Demis Hassabis worked with Richard Joseph too, on Evil Genius i guess.
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here's a 2h Lex Fridman podcast / interview with Demis. https://youtu.be/Gfr50f6ZBvo |
The guy at the forefront of A.I. cut his teeth on AMOS PRO
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... if you don't rot your brains and work hard for it. The unspoken bit of that statement. |
Always cool to see this, I'm rpetty sure the BBC website ran a feature about him which mentioned his Amiga roots. Always nice, as our machine seems very forgotten by the mainstream, everyone seems to assume that we went straight from 8-bit computers to consoles and PCs, like the Americans mostly did.
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okay, okay... it was the spectrum really :blased i remember this guy from back in the day and reading about him getting a job at bullfrog, i watched AlphaGo and realised it was him |
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