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Stopping malaria in its tracks
Developing a vaccine that could save hundreds of thousands of lives
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Research
Measuring perception in AI models
Perception – the process of experiencing the world through senses – is a significant part of intelligence. And building agents with human-level perceptual understanding of the world is a central...
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How undesired goals can arise with correct rewards
As we build increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, we want to make sure they don’t pursue undesired goals. Such behaviour in an AI agent is often the result of specification...
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Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor
In our paper, published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaTensor, the first artificial intelligence (AI) system for discovering novel, efficient, and provably correct algorithms for fundamental...
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Fighting osteoporosis before it starts
Detecting signs of disease before bones start to break
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Understanding the faulty proteins linked to cancer and autism
Helping uncover how protein mutations cause diseases and disorders
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Solving the mystery of how an ancient bird went extinct
Creating a tool to study extinct species from 50,000 years ago
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Building safer dialogue agents
In our latest paper, we introduce Sparrow – a dialogue agent that’s useful and reduces the risk of unsafe and inappropriate answers. Our agent is designed to talk with a user, answer questions,...
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Targeting early-onset Parkinson’s with AI
Predictions that pave the way to new treatments
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Company
How our principles helped define AlphaFold’s release
Our Operating Principles have come to define both our commitment to prioritising widespread benefit, as well as the areas of research and applications we refuse to pursue. These principles have...
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Company
Maximising the impact of our breakthroughs
Colin, CBO at DeepMind, discusses collaborations with Alphabet and how we integrate ethics, accountability, and safety into everything we do.
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In conversation with AI: building better language models
Our new paper, In conversation with AI: aligning language models with human values, explores a different approach, asking what successful communication between humans and an artificial...