Demis Hassabis has long been known as the brilliant British chess champion who became “the grandmaster of AI” (artificial intelligence) when Google bought his London-based DeepMind laboratory in 2014. Still, for much of the past year he’s been playing a nail-biting game of catch-up, says Wired. The astonishing popular response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT not only knocked Google off its perch as the world’s best-known AI innovator, but – via its
