It was a bold choice to host a preview screening of , a documentary about AI company Google DeepMind and its co-founder Demis Hassabis (pictured above), in the week before International Women’s Day.
Things start well. Hassabis is likeable and compelling, and the film is well-crafted with a pacy narrative. There is great archive footage of the young Hassabis and smart use of animation to illustrate his early life as a savant-level chess champ, drawn to his later career by a passion to understand intelligence.
It is an incredible story and a rare glimpse inside a company working on tech that will transform our lives. So for all that, I would highly recommend it. But there was one aspect that left me feeling depressed.
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For a company spearheading this revolution, which claims to want to solve the biggest issues facing humanity, I was shocked by the absence of women in key roles. It was a stark reminder of how far we still have to go.
