New AI by Google sister company masters chess without learning rules
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind has built a new version of its AI software that is better at coming up with new strategies in unfamiliar situations. The AI, called MuZero, has mastered Go, chess, shogi and various Atari games without having the rules explained to it.
DeepMind explains the improveme... Read more
DeepMind and Google recreate voice of ALS patient using AI
Google researchers in the Euphonia project, a speech-to-text service for people with speech impediments, together with DeepMind researchers recreated the voice of an American NFL player.
In August, Google AI researchers working with the ALS Therapy Development Institute shared details about Proj... Read more
DeepMind AI defeats top players in StarCraft II video game
Google sister company DeepMind has trained a self-learning computer that is very good at the real-time strategy video game StarCraft II. The Artificial intelligence (AI) defeated 99.8 percent of human players.
StarCraft is a real-time strategy game, in which gamers have to collect resources, dep... Read more
AI researchers come up with benchmark for natural language processing
A group of researchers dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) have launched a benchmarking platform that measures natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. The group consists of Facebook AI, New York University, DeepMind and the University of Washington.
The platform - SuperGLUE - builds o... Read more
AI from DeepMind can generate realistic videos from YouTube videos
DeepMind, a sister company of Google, has written a paper in which it describes an artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate realistic videos using YouTube videos.
The AI - Dual Video Discriminator GAN (DVD-GAN) - can create coherent 256 by 256 pixel videos with remarkable reliability and a len... Read more
“Google also disbanded AI watchdog focused on health care.
Google has dissolved its Independent Review Panel, which focused on AI-related healthcare activities. According to The Wall Street Journal, there would be disagreement between panelists and Google Health about its effectiveness.
It is yet another AI watchdog that is causing a stir internally. It was... Read more
DeepMind wonders what failure means to artificial intelligence
DeepMind, Google's Artificial Intelligence (AI) department, is busy developing the technology. But after years of research into how AI can become stronger against attacks and fail less quickly, it is not clear what 'failure' actually means for AI. DeepMind wonders that now.
The problem is that ther... Read more
Alphabet daughter DeepMind accurately predicts wind energy
DeepMind, which was acquired by Alphabet in 2014, has been working on artificial intelligence to solve complex problems since 2010. One of DeepMind's latest projects focuses on predicting the yield of wind turbines for a period of 36 hours.
That's what Google is writing today in an extensive blog po... Read more
Google makes PlaNet-AI that learns from open-source images
Google creates PlaNet, an AI agent that developed it, open-source. The technology makes use of reinforcement learning and learns with the help of images about the world. Google unveiled the AI in collaboration with DeepMind and wants to use the software to make plans.
For this reason, Google has chr... Read more
DeepMind’s self-learning AI AlphaZero now easily plays three complex games
A system from Alphabet's subsidiary DeepMind has mastered three of the most complex board games in the world. That's what Silicon Angle reports. The artificial intelligence, AlphaZero, is the third major evaluation of AlphaGo, which three years ago defeated the world champion in Go.
It took months t... Read more