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Learning to navigate in cities without a map
How did you learn to navigate the neighborhood of your childhood, to go to a friend’s house, to your school or to the grocery store? Probably without a map and simply by remembering the visual...
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Retour à Paris / A return to Paris
When we set up our headquarters in London in 2010, we wanted to make DeepMind the best possible place to do cutting-edge AI research. We also wanted to help the wider AI community grow -...
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Learning to write programs that generate images
Through a human’s eyes, the world is much more than just the images reflected in our corneas. For example, when we look at a building and admire the intricacies of its design, we can appreciate...
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Understanding deep learning through neuron deletion
Deep neural networks are composed of many individual neurons, which combine in complex and counterintuitive ways to solve a wide range of challenging tasks. This complexity grants neural networks...
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Stop, look and listen to the people you want to help
‘I like to take things slow. Take it slowly and get it right first time,’ one participant said, but was quickly countered by someone else around the table: ‘But I’m impatient, I want to see the...
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Learning by playing
Getting children (and adults) to tidy up after themselves can be a challenge, but we face an even greater challenge trying to get our AI agents to do the same. Success depends on the mastery of...
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Researching patient deterioration with the US Department of Veterans Affairs
We’re excited to announce a medical research partnership with the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), one of the world’s leading healthcare organisations responsible for providing high-quality...
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Scalable agent architecture for distributed training
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DeepRL) has achieved remarkable success in a range of tasks, from continuous control problems in robotics to playing games like Go and Atari. The improvements seen in...
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Learning explanatory rules from noisy data
Suppose you are playing football. The ball arrives at your feet, and you decide to pass it to the unmarked striker. What seems like one simple action requires two different kinds of thought.
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Open-sourcing Psychlab
Consider the simple task of going shopping for your groceries. If you fail to pick-up an item that is on your list, what does it tell us about the functioning of your brain? It might indicate that...
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Game-theory insights into asymmetric multi-agent games
As AI systems start to play an increasing role in the real world it is important to understand how different systems will interact with one another.
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2017: DeepMind's year in review
In July, the world number one Go player Ke Jie spoke after a streak of 20 wins. It was two months after he had played AlphaGo at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China.
