Jonathan Fildes

/// Creative Lead @ Google DeepMind

If you're looking for Jonathan Fildes: the stunt driver, the yarn exporter or the [now seemingly defunct] taxi service, you're in the wrong place.

I'm the other one.

I run the incredible creative team at Google DeepMind. They're a small - but amazing - group of designers and creators who build brands, create websites, make films, record podcasts and look after pretty much all of the visual work for the company.

It's a lot. But they're super talented.

Here's some of the things we've done together:

Basically, lots of projects at the cutting edge of AI. And - in most cases - long before AI was "a thing".

Even longer before that I was at the BBC, where I ran the technology pages of the news site, created BBC Future and launched an award-winning app for David Attenborough, amongst lots of other stuff.

I've always worked at the intersection of science, technology and creative. My first job was running a webcast for a World Service radio programme called Go Digital. A pioneering idea, but a decade too early for the technology.

I love to set up and run creative projects... and lead the teams who deliver them.

Maybe you - or someone you know - could use some help from someone like me? Or maybe I can connect you with some of the wonderful people I know?

Hit the links below if you'd like to grab coffee and talk.

Or, if you're just curious about AI and don't know where to start, here's a silly project I put together which might offer some inspiration.

AlphaGo's Move 37

I spent a lot of my early years at DeepMind telling the story of AlphaGo - a landmark for AI that left an indelible impression on me... and the world

Not only was AlphaGo the first AI system to master the ancient game of Go and defeat a Go world champion, it was also arguably the first AI system to show glimmers of creativity.

During a five-game match in Korea in 2016 against against the legendary Go player Lee Sedol, AlphaGo played several inventive winning moves including Move 37 — a brilliant yet perplexing move that helped AlphaGo win the game and, in doing so, upended centuries of traditional wisdom.

It's a fascinating story, told brilliantly in this Wired article by Cade Metz, which also tells the story of Lee Sedol's counter Move 78

Although it might seem obscure - or even arcane - I'd argue that Move 37 kicked off the AI era we're all living in today.

>> Read more about AlphaGo and Move 37
>> Watch the AlphaGo Documentary