Reinforcement learning with unsupervised auxiliary tasks
Our primary mission at DeepMind is to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. Our reinforcement learning agents have achieved breakthroughs in Atari 2600 games and the…
DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
Today at BlizzCon 2016 in Anaheim, California, we announced our collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and Machine Learning researchers around the world.
Google’s AI Creates its Own Inhuman Encryption
What happens when you tell two smart computers to talk to each other in
secret and task another AI with breaking that conversation? You get one of
the coolest experiments in cryptography I’ve seen in a while.
Alan Watts on Freedom
As we reflect on world politics and angry public narrative, our focus needs to be on those things that matter. Alan Watts has a great …
Differentiable neural computers
In a recent study in Nature, we introduce a form of memory-augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer, and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generat…
Announcing the Partnership on AI to Benefit People & Society
We believe that AI has the potential for transformative, positive impact in the world. Fulfilling this potential is not only dependent on the quality of the algorithms being engineered and the data they use, but on the level of public engagement, trans…