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Artificial Intelligence, Values and Alignment
This paper looks at philosophical questions that arise in the context of AI alignment. It defends three propositions. First, normative and technical aspects of the AI alignment problem are...
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International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening
Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer before symptoms appear, enabling earlier therapy for more treatable disease. Despite the existence of screening programs worldwide,...
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Using WaveNet technology to reunite speech-impaired users with their original voices
As a teenager, Tim Shaw put everything he had into football practice: his dream was to join the NFL. After playing for Penn State in college, his ambitions were finally realised: the Carolina...
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Learning human objectives by evaluating hypothetical behaviours
When we train reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real world, we don’t want them to explore unsafe states, such as driving a mobile robot into a ditch or writing an embarrassing email to...
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From unlikely start-up to major scientific organisation: Entering our tenth year at DeepMind
Since we started DeepMind nearly 10 years ago, our mission has been to unlock answers to the world’s biggest questions by understanding and recreating intelligence itself.
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Strengthening the AI community
Most people have at least one crossroads moment in their life - when the choice they make defines their personal or professional trajectory. For me, it was being awarded an internship at Intel,...
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Advanced machine learning helps Play Store users discover personalised apps
Over the past few years we've applied DeepMind's technology to Google products and infrastructure, with notable successes like reducing the amount of energy needed for cooling data centers, and...
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AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
AlphaStar is the first AI to reach the top league of a widely popular esport without any game restrictions. This January, a preliminary version of AlphaStar challenged two of the world's top...
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Blog
Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
This work presents PYTHIA, the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. Its architecture is carefully designed to...
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Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer machine learning
Decisions based on machine learning (ML) are potentially advantageous over human decisions, as they do not suffer from the same subjectivity, and can be more accurate and easier to analyse. At the...
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Company
DeepMind’s health team joins Google Health
Over the last three years, DeepMind has built a team to tackle some of healthcare’s most complex problems—developing AI research and mobile tools that are already having a positive impact on...
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Company
The Podcast: Episode 8: Demis Hassabis - The interview
In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.