Suppose you are playing football. The ball arrives at your feet, and you decide to pass it to the unmarked striker. What seems like one simple action requires two different kinds of thought.First, you recognise that there is a football at your feet. Th…
Consider the simple task of going shopping for your groceries. If you fail to pick-up an item that is on your list, what does it tell us about the functioning of your brain? It might indicate that you have difficulty shifting your attention from object…
As AI systems start to play an increasing role in the real world it is important to understand how different systems will interact with one another.In our latest paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports, we use a branch of game theory to shed…
In July, the world number one Go player Ke Jie spoke after a streak of 20 wins. It was two months after he had played AlphaGo at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China.After my match against AlphaGo, I fundamentally reconsidered the game, and now I c…
Working as a doctor in the NHS for over 10 years, I felt that I had developed good understanding of how patients and their families felt when faced with an upsetting diagnosis or important health decision. I had been lucky with my own health, having on…
Between 04-09 December, thousands of researchers and experts will gather for the Thirty-first Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach, California.Here you will find an overview of the papers DeepMind researchers …
