Demis Hassabis received the 2020 Dan David Prize Future Award alongside Prof. Amnon Shashua.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
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Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: the Dan David Prize's official 2020 laureate announcement lists Demis Hassabis as a 2020 laureate in the Future category (shared field, e.g. artificial intelligence) together with Amnon Shashua. Mostly true: both men were 2020 laureates, but a minor detail differs (e.g. the exact name of the category). Mixed: Hassabis received a 2020 Dan David Prize, but not in the Future category, or not alongside Shashua. Mostly false: Hassabis received the prize in a different year. False: Hassabis was not a Dan David Prize laureate in 2020.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Who are the 2020 Dan David Prize laureates? Tel Aviv University · 13 February 2020
“Artificial Intelligence (Future Category) Dr. Demis Hassabis is a pioneer of artificial intelligence and a widely-cited neuroscientist.”
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E2 Who are the 2020 Dan David Prize laureates? Tel Aviv University · 13 February 2020
“Prof. Amnon Shashua is a machine learning and computer vision researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.”
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E3 Who are the 2020 Dan David Prize laureates? Tel Aviv University · 13 February 2020
“This year’s fields are Cultural Preservation and Revival (Past category), Gender Equality (Present category), and Artificial Intelligence (Future category).”
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E4 Webcast Events - Dan David Prize - פרס דן דוד Tel Aviv University Digital Media Services · 12 February 2020
“Event The Announcement of the Dan David Prize Laureates 2020 Date: 12.2.20”
Reasoning
Tel Aviv University's page "Who are the 2020 Dan David Prize laureates?" lists Dr. Demis Hassabis under "Artificial Intelligence (Future Category)" [E1]. The same page profiles Prof. Amnon Shashua, a machine learning and computer vision researcher, as a 2020 laureate [E2]. It also confirms that Artificial Intelligence was that year's Future category [E3]. A TAU webcast listing records that the 2020 laureates were announced on 12.2.20, the date of the claim [E4].
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Demis Hassabis, “Demis Hassabis received the 2020 Dan David Prize Future Award alongside Prof. Amnon Shashua.” (said 12 February 2020). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_4838e1f08edc, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4838e1f08edc
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Reply to this claim
More factual claims by Demis Hassabis
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Mostly true
“What I can say is that we’re in pre-clinical with a bunch of our programs, and it’s going very well,”
Isomorphic Labs has a number of its drug programs in the pre-clinical stage.
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Resolved true
“Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since AlphaGo!”
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Resolved true
“It was a huge honour to meet with President @Jaemyung_Lee in Seoul.”
Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in Seoul.
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Mixed
“I got into AI in the first place because I was interested in all the big questions in the world, the nature of reality, nature of consciousness, these kinds of things.”
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Mostly true
“I think that’s why I decided from a very young age to do AI”
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