The Thinking Game

A 83-minute documentary about Demis Hassabis and Google DeepMind’s long-running effort to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). Filmed over five years by the team behind AlphaGo, it follows the lab from early reinforcement-learning experiments through landmark systems such as AlphaGo, AlphaStar, and AlphaFold.blog+2

The Thinking Game is a documentary about Demis Hassabis and Google DeepMind’s pursuit of artificial general intelligence. Filmed over five years, it follows the team’s work on AI systems such as AlphaGo, AlphaStar, and AlphaFold. The film shows how games helped DeepMind develop AI that could learn, plan, and improve through experience. A major turning point is AlphaGo’s 2016 victory over Go champion Lee Sedol, which demonstrated the power of machine learning in a highly complex game. The documentary then shifts to AlphaFold, whose protein-structure predictions represented a major breakthrough for biology and medical research. Overall, the film portrays AI progress as the result of long-term research, persistence, and responsible innovation rather than a sudden breakthrough.