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DeepMind papers at NIPS 2017

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 …

Why doesn’t Streams use AI?

One of the questions Im most often asked about Streams, our secure mobile healthcare app, is why is DeepMind making something that doesnt use artificial intelligence?Its a fair question to ask of an artificial intelligence (AI) company. When we first s…

Specifying AI safety problems in simple environments

As AI systems become more general and more useful in the real world, ensuring they behave safely will become even more important. To date, the majority of technical AI safety research has focused on developing a theoretical understanding about the natu…

Population based training of neural networks

Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network at a particular application is often determined by a seri…

Applying machine learning to mammography screening for breast cancer

We founded DeepMind Health to develop technologies that could help address some of societys toughest challenges. So were very excited to announce that our latest research partnership will focus on breast cancer.Well be working with a group of leading r…

High-fidelity speech synthesis with WaveNet

In October we announced that our state-of-the-art speech synthesis model WaveNet was being used to generate realistic-sounding voices for the Google Assistant globally in Japanese and the US English. This production model – known as parallel WaveNet – …

Sharing our insights from designing with clinicians

[Editors note: this is the first in a series of blog posts about what weve learned about working in healthcare. Its both exceptionally hard and exceptionally important to get right, and we hope that by sharing our experiences well help other health inn…