Posts in category: Deepmind

Planning winning strategies in unknown environments is a step forward in the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms.Read More

Here we share our experience of working with JAX, outline why we find it useful for our AI research, how we are supporting JAX development, and give an overview of the ecosystem we are building to support researchers everywhere.Read More

In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI systemAlphaFoldhas been recognised as a solution to the protein folding problem by the organisers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP).Read More

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Weve developed a new neural network architecture, the Fermionic Neural Network or FermiNet, which is well-suited to modeling the quantum state of large collections of electrons, the fundamental building blocks of chemical bonds.Read More

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Working with our partners at Google Maps, we used advanced machine learning techniques including Graph Neural Networks, to improve the accuracy of real time ETAs by up to 50%.Read More

We answer the Women in Machine Learning community’s questions about applying for a job in industry.Read More

Vision loss among the elderly is a major healthcare issue: about one in three people have some vision-reducing disease by the age of 65. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in the developed world. In Europe, approximately 25% of those 60 and older have AMD. The dry form is relatively common among people over 65, and usually causes only mild sight loss. However, about 15% of patients with dry AMD go on to develop a more serious form of the disease exudative AMD, or exAMD which can result in rapid and permanent loss of sight. Fortunately, there are treatments that can slow further vision loss. Although there are no preventative therapies available at present, these are being explored in clinical trials. The period before the development of exAMD may therefore represent a critical window to target for therapeutic innovations: can we predict which patients will progress to exAMD, and help prevent sight loss before it even occurs?Read More

Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, even if not by this name. Readers may have heard the myth of King Midas and the golden touch, in which the king asks that anything he touches be turned to gold – but soon finds that even food and drink turn to metal in his hands. In the real world, when rewarded for doing well on a homework assignment, a student might copy another student to get the right answers, rather than learning the material – and thus exploit a loophole in the task specification.Read More