Movie review: The Thinking Game (2025)

About the movie

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The Thinking Game follows Demis Hassabis and the DeepMind team over several years as they pursue a goal of Building AI systems that can learn, reason, and solve complex problems, not just win games.

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The documentary focuses on scientific impact, with AlphaFold as the emotional and narrative peak.

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It stays away from deep technical detail and focuses instead on the people, the pressure, and the belief that drives the work inside the lab.

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What is the main topic?

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The core topic is ambition.

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Not startup ambition, but long-term scientific ambition. The kind where progress takes years and failure is normal.

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It’s about the belief that intelligence can be built, tested, and improved.

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It’s also about what that belief demands from the people chasing it.

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Focus, sacrifice, and the constant need to show results while working inside a massive tech organization.

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Should you watch it and why?

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Yes, especially if you like AI and want more than surface-level hype.

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This film shows why DeepMind is taken seriously and why AlphaFold was such a big moment, without overselling or dramatizing the tech.

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This work is happening inside a major tech company orbit, so the film can feel part documentary and part polished corporate narrative on times.

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But it’s inspiring.

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You walk away with a better feel for how real AI progress happens and why it’s hard.

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If you enjoy stories about people trying to push the limits of what’s possible, this one is worth your time.

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Wanna see what the comments under the video say before investing 1.5 hours?

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