Demis Hassabis

We were the first ones to start doing it seriously in the modern era.

AlphaGo was the big watershed moment, I think, not just for DeepMind and my company, but for AI in general.

This was always my aim with AI from a kid, which is to use it to accelerate scientific discovery.

Well, it's a very surreal moment, obviously.

Everything about it is surreal.

The way they tell you, they tell you like 10 minutes before it all goes live.

You're sort of shell-shocked when you get that call from Sweden.

It's the call that every scientist dreams about.

And then the ceremony is a whole week in Sweden with the royal family.

It's amazing.

Obviously, it's been going for 120 years.

And the most amazing bit is they bring out this Nobel book from the vaults in the safe.

And you get to sign your name next to all the other greats.

So it's quite an incredible moment, sort of leafing back to the other pages and seeing Feynman and Marie Curie and Einstein and Niels Bohr.

And you just carry on going backwards and you get to put your name in that book.

It's incredible.

Well, you hear rumors.

It's amazingly locked down, actually, in today's age, how they keep it so quiet.

But it's sort of like a national treasure for Sweden.

And so you hear, you know, maybe AlphaFold is the kind of thing that would be worthy of that recognition.