Director: Greg Kohs

Cast: Demis Hassabis

The Thinking Game is a 2025 American documentary directed by Greg Kohs, tracing the singular ambition of DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as he pursues one of science's most daunting frontiers: artificial general intelligence. At 84 minutes, it is a portrait of a mind — and of the machine he hopes to build.

What is The Thinking Game about?

The film follows Demis Hassabis across years of research, setbacks, and breakthroughs at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Beginning with his early chess prodigy years and running through the founding of DeepMind and its landmark AlphaGo achievement, the documentary charts how one scientist has staked his life's work on teaching computers to reason the way humans do — not merely to calculate, but to understand. The camera grants unusual access to laboratories, strategy sessions, and quiet moments of doubt, capturing both the exhilaration and the weight of working on technology that could reshape civilization. The stakes, Hassabis makes clear, extend far beyond any single research paper.

Cast & crew

Director Greg Kohs previously brought the board-game world to global attention with AlphaGo (2017), and here he returns to the same subject a decade on, tracing what came next. At the center of the film is Demis Hassabis — neuroscientist, former chess grandmaster, and co-founder of Google DeepMind — whose personal story threads through every sequence, making the science feel grounded in a single driven human perspective.

Context & significance

Persian-speaking viewers, many of whom work in engineering, medicine, and tech sectors across Canada, the United States, and Europe, have shown sustained appetite for intelligent science documentary. The Thinking Game arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping the professional lives of the diaspora in real time — from software developers in Toronto to researchers in Berlin. Watching Hassabis articulate the philosophical gap between narrow AI and true general intelligence resonates with anyone who thinks seriously about what the technology they use every day actually is. The film is in English with original audio; no Persian dub or subtitle track is currently available on K-Time.

Where & how to watch

The Thinking Game is available to stream on K-Time. Watch it on the web at ktime.app, on your Android TV دستگاه, or on your Android phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe once and cancel anytime.