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WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant

Just over a year ago we presented WaveNet, a new deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms that is capable of producing better and more realistic-sounding speech than existing techniques. At that time, the model was a research prototype an…

Why we launched DeepMind Ethics & Society

At DeepMind, were proud of the role weve played in pushing forward the science of AI, and our track record of exciting breakthroughs and major publications. We believe AI can be of extraordinary benefit to the world, but only if held to the highest eth…

The hippocampus as a predictive map

Think about how you choose a route to work, where to move house, or even which move to make in a game like Go. All of these scenarios require you to estimate the likely future reward of your decision. This is tricky because the number of possible scena…

DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment

DeepMind’s scientific mission is to push the boundaries of AI by developing systems that can learn to solve complex problems. To do this, we design agents and test their ability in a wide range of environments from the purpose-built DeepMind Lab to est…

DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part two)

The second of our three-part series, which gives an overview of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.

DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part three)

The final part of our three-part series that gives an overview of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.

DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part one)

The first of our three-part series, which gives brief descriptions of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.