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Google’s AlphaGo AI wins three-match series against the world’s best Go player
Google’s AlphaGo AI has once again made the case that machines are now smarter than man — when it comes to games of strategy, at least. AlphaGo made its name last…
“We should not talk about jobs being lost but people suffering,” says Kasparov on AI
How can humans stay ahead of an ever growing machine intelligence? “I think the challenge for us is to always be creative,” says former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, speaking…
DeepMind’s inaugural data-sharing deal with the UK’s National Health Service looks to be coming firmly unstuck.
AI report fed by DeepMind, Amazon, Uber urges greater access to public sector data sets
What are tech titans Google, Amazon and Uber agitating for to further the march of machine learning technology and ultimately inject more fuel in the engines of their own dominant…
Google DeepMind open sources Sonnet so you can build neural networks in TensorFlow even quicker
Google’s DeepMind announced today that it was open sourcing Sonnet, its object-oriented neural network library. Sonnet doesn’t replace TensorFlow, it’s simply a higher-level library that meshes well with DeepMind’s internal…
Elon Musk invested early in DeepMind just to keep tabs on the progress of AI
Elon Musk is a well-known harbinger of the potential for ill held by AI. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also helped start OpenAI. Musk, it turns out, was in on…
UK watchdog “close” to verdict in DeepMind Health data consent probe
The UK’s data protection watchdog has said it’s “close” to concluding a 10-month+ investigation into consent complaints pertaining to a patient data-sharing agreement inked between Google-owned DeepMind and the Royal…
Why should you trust an advertising giant with the most sensitive personal data you possess: aka your medical records? That’s the hugely sticky issue Google-owned DeepMind is facing as it…
DeepMind’s updated AlphaGo has been secretly savaging pro players online
Pokémon GO might have been the most talked about “Go” game of 2016, but the world of AI remains fixated on another Go — AlphaGo. Last spring, Go-playing AI AlphaGo…
Microsoft’s plan to use machine learning to improve eyecare in India
Competition that results in better care for people suffering from visual impairments is the right kind of competition. Following a path similar to that of Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft India announced this morning…
DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a long way off
Mustafa Suleyman, the Co-Founder & Head of Applied AI, which Google acquired in 2014, took the stage at our Disrupt London event today to talk to our Special Projects Editor…
DeepMind CEO and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman talks to TechCrunch about its expanded collaboration with the Royal Free NHS Trust, including a forthcoming health data API infrastructure. He also responds to…
DeepMind Health inks new deal with UK’s NHS to deploy Streams app in early 2017
DeepMind Health, the division of the Google-owned AI company that’s focused on building links to healthcare providers to drive the application of machine learning algorithms for preventative medicine, has inked…
DeepMind’s differentiable neural computer helps you navigate the subway with its memory
In his best-selling 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman hypothesized that thinking could be broken down into two distinct processes — aptly named fast and…
It’s difficult to predict how artificial intelligence technology will change over the next 10 to 20 years, but there are plenty of gains to be made. By 2018, robots will…
DeepMind wants its healthcare AI to charge by results — but first it needs your data
Mark your Google calendars because from today ‘Don’t be evil’ rides again, via the DeepMind AI division of the Alphabet ad giant, as a hippocratic assurance to ‘Do no harm’…
Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music
Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A…
A controversial data-sharing agreement between Google-owned AI company DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has caught the eye of the National Data Guardian — the government appointee who…
Google unleashes DeepMind on energy-hungry data center, cutting cooling bill by 40%
DeepMind may be a master at one of the most complex games on Earth, but can it handle the day-to-day energy concerns of a Google datacenter? Yes, as it turns…
DeepMind’s first NHS health app faces more regulatory bumps
It’s fair to say that Google-owned AI company DeepMind’s big push into the health space via data-access collaborations with the UK’s National Health Service — announced with much fanfare in…
Leading venture capitalists, scientists and CEOs all have the same prediction for AI: machines will take jobs away, “eat the world” and, ultimately, overthrow humanity. These histrionics have driven a…
If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear — as its machine learning…
Google-owned DeepMind has expanded its collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), announcing a research partnership today with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London — its second…
NHS memo details Google/DeepMind’s five year plan to bring AI to healthcare
More details have emerged about the sweeping scope of Google/DeepMind’s ambitions for pushing its algorithmic fingers deep into the healthcare sector — including wanting to apply machine learning processing to…
Google’s Eric Schmidt says it’s time to ignore petty politics and focus on “transformative” tech
When Eric Schmidt took the stage today in New York City, he spent less time talking about business at Google (where he was previously CEO and now serves as executive…
UK healthcare products regulator in talks with Google/DeepMind over its Streams app
An app being made by DeepMind, the Google-owned AI company, working in collaboration with the NHS Royal Free Trust in London and being used to help identify hospital patients who…
In late January, Nature magazine announced that a computer designed by Google’s DeepMind defeated a human master in the ancient Chinese board game, “Go.” This impressive achievement once again raised…
Concerns raised over broad scope of DeepMind-NHS health data-sharing deal
Concerns have been raised about the scope of a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) after it was revealed the agreement covers access to…
It’s 1997. An IBM computer named Deep Blue defeats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was viewed as a milestone for AI, the true arrival of computer intelligence. The…
Google: Defeating Go champion shows AI can ‘find solutions humans don’t see’
Much was written of an historic moment for artificial intelligence last week when a Google-developed AI beat one of the planet’s most sophisticated players of Go, an East Asia strategy…
