The Thinking Game

2024

Animation / Documentary / Sci-Fi

4
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 995 995

artificial intelligence (a.i.) inventor high technology information technology artificial general intelligence (a.g.i.) computer scientist

Director

Greg Kohs Photo
Greg Kohs

Top cast

J. Robert Oppenheimer Photo
J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self - Theoretical Physicist
Stephen Hawking Photo
Stephen Hawking as Self - Theoretical Physicist
Albert Einstein Photo
Albert Einstein as Self - Theoretical Physicist
Lee Sedol Photo
Lee Sedol as Self - Go Player
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775.3 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 22
1.55 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lishalinski-21-474706 9 / 10

An amazing journey

Apart from being an amazing story, one of the things I loved about this is how much footage they have over quite a long period of time, video of Demis from when he was a young kid playing chess and over many years of the development of Deep Mind. This meant that you went on the journey with them and celebrated their successes and failures alongside them.I guess i'm not that aware about all of this stuff because i had slightly confused it with LLMs and of course this is something different, more important and more interesting. I really recommend watching this, everyone should know about where our future is heading.
Reviewed by bohappa-10980 8 / 10

Inspiring and informative

If you accidentally start watching this because you're captivated with the potential of AI, you will be richly rewarded. I knew bits of this story but seeing it all together and watching it as the story of one incredible person who has been absolutely focused on using his mind to making the world a better place by solving really hard problems was very encouraging. I've heard of AlphaGo and AlphaStar but hadn't realized they were just milestones on the way to the development of the profoundly important technology of AlphaFold.
Reviewed by PeaceRequiresAnarchy 9 / 10

"How do you keep power forever over..."

"How do you keep power forever over something that's much more powerful than you?" - Prof. Stuart RussellThis very important question from the trailer is unfortunately not what The Thinking Game is about.While Demis Hassabis acknowledges loss of control and extinction risk from AGI elsewhere, in The Thinking Game he calls the technology itself neutral.DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg does somewhat better, saying that he worries the opposite of what investors and colleagues worry: Legg thinks that AGI may come too soon before society can prepare rather than too late such that working on it is a waste of time.Multiple people interviewed including Legg and VP of Research Raia Hadsell state that DeepMind is caught up in an AGI race. It is said that AlphaGo was the Sputnik moment for China. PauseAI protesters are briefly shown in London with signs to the effect of "If you can't steer it, don't build it."The engaging documentary is reminiscent of the documentary AlphaGo (2017), except it starts earlier covering Hassabis' background as chess prodigy realizing in 1988 at age ~12 after resigning in a drawn position 10 hours into a game of chess that spending his life working on mastering chess would be a waste of talent, and finishes later with the story of DeepMind solving protein folding and Hassabis winning the Nobel prize.There is an emotional scene at the end where someone in an Alpha Fold meeting says that they could fold all the proteins in a month and Hassabis says that it's a great idea, why didn't anyone suggest it before, why don't they just fold all the proteins and publish it. The good this does for the medicine and the world is immense and in my opinion Hassabis's Nobel Prize was well deserved.There was not much new that followers of Hassabis and DeepMind in the media did not already know, but for me the film strengthened my conviction that this deeply likeable man in this incredible position of power and influence over the entire future, for all the good he has done and hopefully will continue to do, is not being as vocal and forthright about the existential risk that AGI poses.I'm just a layperson and everything I say about the film is just from memory after having just watched it, but I'll leave you with this Hassabis quote from October 1, 2024:"And so it would be immensely powerful, but it has to be handled with care and I think that we just don't know. So the reason I signed that letter ("Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war") is I just wanted to give some weight against the sort of Pollyannaism of like there's nothing here to see, that actually there's some unknown risk, and we need to define. We've got, I think we've got time, not, but 10 years is not a lot of time for something that monumental coming down the road. So we need to do a lot more research on things like controllability, understanding what these systems do on a theoretical level, and you know very important things like how do we define goals for the systems and values for the systems, and how do we make sure they stick to them. These are all kind of unknowns with the current nascent technology."So I would say I'm a cautious optimist. So I think we'll solve it if we get our act together, we do this internationally, put all the best minds on it, we get going now-I'm very happy to see the AI Safety Institutes that have been set up in in UK and US and we were big advocates of that happening-and testing the latest models, but we need a lot more of that. So I was just sort of encouraging that really to happen. And I think given sufficient time with sufficient brain power-I believe in human ingenuity-I think we'll get this right. But, there are, you know, there are risks and we can't cut corners and we need to treat it, I think, with the respect and almost the reverence, I think, that this technology deserves, that we're on the cusp of."Hassabis gives a lot of qualifications after "I think we'll solve it." That worries me a lot given that if we don't solve it, if we don't get AI alignment right on the first critical try, then everyone dies.I would really like Demis Hassabis and everyone else to pre-order the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, coming September 2025.I am not confident they are right, but it seems like they very well might be, and I'd feel a lot better about the future if Hassabis had acknowledged that an AI extinction event in our lifetimes is a very real possibility in the documentary. The world still needs to wake up and confront the reality of the situation we find ourselves in. Thanks for reading, and check out the blurbs for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies."
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