The Thinking Game
World Premiere

The Thinking Game

Spotlight Documentary
Feature | United States | 83 MINUTES | English
Documentary

Demis Hassabis has always been thinking about thinking. It started during his childhood career as a chess champion, continued to Bullfrog Games where he helped develop one of the most successful games in history at just 17 years old, and then followed him through his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. All this led him to co-founding DeepMind, an artificial general intelligence company with one simple mission: to solve intelligence. Like they’re running out of time, The Thinking Game chronicles DeepMind’s sprint toward creating the smartest machine in the world in the AI space race.

With extraordinary archival footage from Hassabis’ life and career, we follow every step that contributed to DeepMind’s monumental achievements. Hassabis leads the film — and his company — with the utmost optimism and ambition, forging a path where artificial intelligence can be used to solve any problem you can think of — and the ones that you can’t. Balancing the weight of the massive responsibility this kind of technology requires, The Thinking Game illuminates the real positive impacts AI can have, from a simple chess game to curing cancer.––Camille Ramos

After the Premiere Screening: A conversation with CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis, and Director Greg Kohs, moderated by Darren Aronofsky.


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Greg Kohs
Director
Greg Kohs
Producer
Gary Krieg
Cinematographer
Greg Kohs
Editor
Steven Sander
Composer
Dan Deacon
Executive Producer
Tom Dore, Jonathan Fildes
Co-Producer
Greg Kohs

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Annie Roney
ROCO Films
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 415 720 2121
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Annie Roney
ROCO Films
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 415 720 2121
annie@rocofilms.com
Press Contact
Steven Beeman
Falco Ink
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 917 854 8700
stevenmbeeman@falcoink.com
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