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Blog
Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
This work presents PYTHIA, the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. Its architecture is carefully designed to...
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Research
Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer machine learning
Decisions based on machine learning (ML) are potentially advantageous over human decisions, as they do not suffer from the same subjectivity, and can be more accurate and easier to analyse. At the...
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Company
DeepMind’s health team joins Google Health
Over the last three years, DeepMind has built a team to tackle some of healthcare’s most complex problems—developing AI research and mobile tools that are already having a positive impact on...
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Company
The Podcast: Episode 8: Demis Hassabis - The interview
In this special extended episode, Hannah Fry meets Demis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
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Company
The Podcast: Episode 7: Towards the future
AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how.
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Research
Replay in biological and artificial neural networks
Our waking and sleeping lives are punctuated by fragments of recalled memories: a sudden connection in the shower between seemingly disparate thoughts, or an ill-fated choice decades ago that...
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Research
Making Efficient Use of Demonstrations to Solve Hard Exploration Problems
This paper introduces R2D3, an agent that makes efficient use of demonstrations to solve hard exploration problems in partially observable environments with highly variable initial conditions. We...
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The Podcast: Episode 6: AI for everyone
While there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused.
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The Podcast: Episode 5: Out of the lab
The ambition of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world.
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The Podcast: Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers...
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The Podcast: Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraft II - a challenging video game that requires...
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The Podcast: Episode 2: Go to Zero
In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to...
