DEMIS HASSABIS STANDS HALF-way up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. How is it going to develop, not just two steps ahead, but 20 steps ahead?" Eustace assured Hassabis that Google shared those concerns, and that Deep Mind's interests were aligned with its own. A team of Google executives flew to London in a private jet, and Hassabis wowed them by showing them a prototype AI his team had taught to play the computer game Breakout. Hassabis and his colleagues fervently believed in training AI in game environments, and the dividends of the approach impressed the Google executives. [Extracted from the article]