Boxi shares their experiences working as a program specialist on the ethics & society team to support ethical, safe and beneficial AI development, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary and sociotechnical thinking.Read More
Bridging DeepMind research with Alphabet products
Today we caught up with Gemma Jennings, a product manager on the Applied team, who led a session on vision language models at the AI Summit, one of the world’s largest AI events for business.Read More
Advocating for the LGBTQ+ community in AI research
Research scientist, Kevin McKee, tells how his early love of science fiction and social psychology inspired his career, and how he’s helping advance research in ‘queer fairness’, support human-AI collaboration, and study the effects of AI on the LGBTQ+ community.Read More
Kyrgyzstan to King’s Cross: the star baker cooking up code
My day can vary, it really depends on which phase of the project I’m on. Let’s say we want to add a feature to our product – my tasks could range from designing solutions and working with the team to find the best one, to deploying new features into production and doing maintenance. Along the way, I’ll communicate changes to our stakeholders, write docs, code and test solutions, build analytics dashboards, clean-up old code, and fix bugs.Read More
Building a culture of pioneering responsibly
When I joined DeepMind as COO, I did so in large part because I could tell that the founders and team had the same focus on positive social impact. In fact, at DeepMind, we now champion a term that perfectly captures my own values and hopes for integrating technology into people’s daily lives: pioneering responsibly. I believe pioneering responsibly should be a priority for anyone working in tech. But I also recognise that it’s especially important when it comes to powerful, widespread technologies like artificial intelligence. AI is arguably the most impactful technology being developed today. It has the potential to benefit humanity in innumerable ways – from combating climate change to preventing and treating disease. But it’s essential that we account for both its positive and negative downstream impacts.Read More
Open-sourcing MuJoCo
In October 2021, we announced that we acquired the MuJoCo physics simulator, and made it freely available for everyone to support research everywhere. We also committed to developing and maintaining MuJoCo as a free, open-source, community-driven project with best-in-class capabilities. Today, we’re thrilled to report that open sourcing is complete and the entire codebase is on GitHub! Here, we explain why MuJoCo is a great platform for open-source collaboration and share a preview of our roadmap going forward.Read More
From LEGO competitions to DeepMind’s robotics lab
If you want to be at DeepMind, go for it. Apply, interview, and just try. You might not get it the first time but that doesn’t mean you can’t try again. I never thought DeepMind would accept me, and when they did, I thought it was a mistake. Everyone doubts themselves – I’ve never felt like the smartest person in the room. I’ve often felt the opposite. But I’ve learned that, despite those feelings, I do belong and I do deserve to work at a place like this. And that journey, for me, started with just trying.Read More
When a passion for bass and brass help build better tools
We caught up with Kevin Millikin, a software engineer on the DevTools team. He’s in Salt Lake City this week to present at PyCon US, the largest annual gathering for those using and developing the open-source Python programming language.Read More
Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model
We introduce Flamingo, a single visual language model (VLM) that sets a new state of the art in few-shot learning on a wide range of open-ended multimodal tasks.Read More