2023: A Year of Groundbreaking Advances in AI and Computing
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2023: A Year of Groundbreaking Advances in AI and Computing

Company Published 22 December 2023 Authors By Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research, Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind, and James Manyika, SVP, Google Research, Technology & Society This has been a year of incredible progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and its practical applications. As ongoing research pushes AI […]

Salmon in the Loop
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Salmon in the Loop

One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex sociotechnical problem in a field going through the process of digital transformation. For me, that was fish counting. Recently, I worked as a consultant in a subdomain of environmental science focused on counting fish that pass

Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2023
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Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2023

Research Published 8 December 2023 Towards more multimodal, robust, and general AI systems Next week marks the start of the 37th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),the largest artificial intelligence (AI) conference in the world. NeurIPS 2023 will be taking place December 10-16 in New Orleans, USA. Teams from across Google DeepMind are

Google’s most capable AI model yet
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Google’s most capable AI model yet

Making Gemini available to the world Gemini 1.0 is now rolling out across a range of products and platforms: Gemini Pro in Google products We’re bringing Gemini to billions of people through Google products. Starting today, Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and more. This is

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
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Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

Science Published 29 November 2023 Authors Amil Merchant and Ekin Dogus Cubuk AI tool GNoME finds 2.2 million new crystals, including 380,000 stable materials that could power future technologies Modern technologies from computer chips and batteries to solar panels rely on inorganic crystals. To enable new technologies, crystals must be stable otherwise they can decompose,

Neural algorithmic reasoning
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Neural algorithmic reasoning

In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems, incredible ways to organise data for efficient retrieval and updates. Of course, given The Gradient’s

The Artificiality of Alignment
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The Artificiality of Alignment

This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons — might show up uncritically in the New Yorker? More than ever, the public discourse about AI

An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness
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An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness

Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago. For example, last year, Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, made headlines claiming the large language model he was developing

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI – IEEE Spectrum
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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI – IEEE Spectrum

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu, where he helped build the Chinese

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