Research
AlphaGo’s next move
With just three stones on the board, it was clear that this was going to be no ordinary game of Go. Chinese Go Grandmaster and world number one Ke Jie departed from his typical style of play and opened with a 3:3 point strategy – a highly unusual appro…
Innovations of AlphaGo
One of the great promises of AI is its potential to help us unearth new knowledge in complex domains. Weve already seen exciting glimpses of this, when our algorithms found ways to dramatically improve energy use in data centres – as well as of course …
Exploring the mysteries of Go with AlphaGo and China’s top players
Just over a year ago, we saw a major milestone in the field of artificial intelligence: DeepMinds AlphaGo took on and defeated one of the worlds top Go players, the legendary Lee Sedol. Even then, we had no idea how this moment would affect the 3,000 y…
Open sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks
Its now nearly a year since DeepMind made the decision to switch the entire research organisation to using TensorFlow (TF). Its proven to be a good choice – many of our models learn significantly faster, and the built-in features for distributed traini…