Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. Why?
Episode 2: Go to Zero
The story of AlphaGo, first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone considered a decade ahead of its time.
Episode 1: AI and neuroscience – The virtuous circle
What can the human brain teach us about AI? And what can AI teach us about our own intelligence?
Welcome to the DeepMind podcast
This eight part series hosted by mathematician and broadcaster Hannah Fry aims to give listeners an inside look at the fascinating world of AI research and explores some of the questions and challenges the whole field is wrestling with today.
Using machine learning to accelerate ecological research
The Serengeti is one of the last remaining sites in the world that hosts an intact community of large mammals. These animals roam over vast swaths of land, some migrating thousands of miles across multiple countries following seasonal rainfall. As huma…
Using AI to give doctors a 48-hour head start on life-threatening illness
Artificial intelligence can now predict one of the leading causes of avoidable patient harm up to two days before it happens, as demonstrated byour latest research published in Nature.
Unsupervised learning: The curious pupil
One in a series of posts explaining the theories underpinning our research. Over the last decade, machine learning has made unprecedented progress in areas as diverse as image recognition, self-driving cars and playing complex games like Go. These succ…
Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
Mastering the strategy, tactical understanding, and team play involved in multiplayer video games represents a critical challenge for AI research. Now, through new developments in reinforcement learning, our agents have achieved human-level performance…
Identifying and eliminating bugs in learned predictive models
One in a series of posts explaining the theories underpinning our research. Bugs and software have gone hand in hand since the beginning of computer programming. Over time, software developers have established a set of best practices for testing and de…