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The Surprising Origin of DeepMind: Why Demis Hassabis Built SimCity Clones Before Neural Nets
Long before founding DeepMind, Demis Hassabis was a teenage gaming prodigy co-designing Theme Park. Here is how simulating amusement parks led straight to modern reinforcement learning.
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"Game engines are the purest sandboxes humanity ever engineered. If your agent can conquer the rules of an interactive simulation, you understand intelligence."
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