AI will kill off search engines
Gates predicts
Software King of the World Sir William Gates III claims that AI will soon create personal digital agents for humans so that they never have to go to a productivity site or Amazon again.
Deep Mind improves matrices maths
Improved 50 years worth of maths classes
Google’s DeepMind has been using applied reinforced learning techniques to the multiplication of mathematical matrices and can do it better than some 50 year-old human-made algorithms.
Apple in a panic after key staffers revolt
We don’t want to come back to the flying saucer
Yesterday we reported out Apple backpedalled over its insistence that its staff return to the flying saucer and stop working from home.
Deepmind rubbish at spotting sexual harassment
In this case it is a human problem
It is starting to look like the humans behind AI are worse than the actual technology as a former DeepMind employee has blasted the AI lab for being “grossly inadequate" in dealing with internal sexual harassment.
AI software helps date and decode ancient Greek texts
Reconstructing works destroyed by time
AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature.
DeepMind AI can code like an average developer
Is that a good thing?
DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says "writes computer programs at a competitive level." Of course, it didn't say what sort of competition. Most developers would do well in an inhaling pizza competition, or most doughnuts consumed within eight seconds and most of these could be carried out while writing code.
Google’s Deepmind has key breakthrough
Solves the problem of protein folding and confirms the existance of rice pudding
A 50 year old science problem has been solved and could allow for dramatic changes in the fight against diseases, researchers say.
DeepMind beats 99.8 percent of StarCraft II players
Grandmaster level
Google's DeepMind today announced a new milestone for its artificial intelligence agents trained to play the Blizzard Entertainment game StarCraft II – it is now a grand master.
DeepMind can spot if your kidneys are in trouble
Two days earlier
Google’s DeepMind can predict if a patient has potentially fatal kidney injuries 48 hours before many symptoms can be recognised by doctors.
Google’s DeepMind creates a game learning system
AlphaZero upgrades
Google's AI supreme intelligence DeepMind has created a system that can quickly master any game including chess, Go, and Shogi, and do so without human guidance.