Research
Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer machine learning
Decisions based on machine learning (ML) are potentially advantageous over human decisions, but the data used to train them often contains human and societal biases that can lead to harmful decisions.
Replay in biological and artificial neural networks
Our waking and sleeping lives are punctuated by fragments of recalled memories: a sudden connection in the shower between seemingly disparate thoughts, or an ill-fated choice decades ago that haunts us as we struggle to fall asleep.
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…