Games were never an end in themselves for DeepMind but a means to develop general learning algorithms that could generalize to real-world problems in science, medicine, and mathematics—the true goal has always been advancing human knowledge.

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Demis Hassabis

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games was never an end in itself... So games were the kind of on-ramp to develop those types of general algorithms... the anything else part what I had in mind was science specifically

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Sir Demis Hassabis on The Future of Knowledge | Institute for Advanced StudyInstitute for Advanced Study
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:28:03 AM

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