29 July 2022, 16:25 | #1 |
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Founder of DeepMind AI was an Amiga guy?
Saw this video about Deep Mind.
[ Show youtube player ] 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 Last edited by eXeler0; 29 July 2022 at 16:31. |
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In the Theme Park manual he is listed as 'Creator and PC Programming' alongside Molyneux: https://hol.abime.net/1372/manual
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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. |
29 July 2022, 17:42 | #4 |
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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
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29 July 2022, 18:24 | #5 |
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Demis Hassabis worked with Richard Joseph too, on Evil Genius i guess.
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The guy at the forefront of A.I. cut his teeth on AMOS PRO
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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 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 Last edited by Djay; 17 February 2023 at 23:31. |
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