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DeepMind papers at NIPS 2017
Between 04-09 December, thousands of researchers and experts will gather for the Thirty-first Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach, California.
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Specifying AI safety problems in simple environments
As AI systems become more general and more useful in the real world, ensuring they behave safely will become even more important. To date, the majority of technical AI safety research has focused...
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Population based training of neural networks
Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network...
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High-fidelity speech synthesis with WaveNet
In October we announced that our state-of-the-art speech synthesis model WaveNet was being used to generate realistic-sounding voices for the Google Assistant globally in Japanese and the US...
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AlphaGo Zero: Starting from scratch
Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are...
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WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
Just over a year ago we presented WaveNet, a new deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms that is capable of producing better and more realistic-sounding speech than existing...
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The hippocampus as a predictive map
Think about how you choose a route to work, where to move house, or even which move to make in a game like Go. All of these scenarios require you to estimate the likely future reward of your...
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DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part two)
The second of our three-part series, which gives an overview of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.
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DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part one)
The first of our three-part series, which gives brief descriptions of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.
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DeepMind papers at ICML 2017 (part three)
The final part of our three-part series that gives an overview of the papers we are presenting at the ICML 2017 Conference in Sydney, Australia.
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AI and Neuroscience: A virtuous circle
Recent progress in AI has been remarkable. Artificial systems now outperform expert humans at Atari video games, the ancient board game Go, and high-stakes matches of heads-up poker. They can also...
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Going beyond average for reinforcement learning
Consider the commuter who toils backwards and forwards each day on a train. Most mornings, her train runs on time and she reaches her first meeting relaxed and ready. But she knows that once in...