Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

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…

Kurzweil Claims that the Singularity Will Happen by 2045

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist
with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147
predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 percent accuracy rate.
Earlier this week, at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Kurzweil made
yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime
in the next 30 years.