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Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub

Follows £2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order

AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 2

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy

Updated Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us

Science31 Jan 2024 | 8

Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini

Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now

AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 11

AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more

What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction

AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 13

Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen

Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it

AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22

Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ...

... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods'

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 14

Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot

Multibillion-dollar lawsuit namechecks El Reg – twice

AI + ML12 Jul 2023 | 44

Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product

Can you guess what it is yet? Here's a clue: It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I'

AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 36

Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots

Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished

AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5

Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one

Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name?

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 5

Humans strike back at Go-playing AI systems

Amateur fleshbag defeats synthetic in 14 of 15 games

AI + ML20 Feb 2023 | 43

DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques

How Meta, er, meta

AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15

The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback

Thanks for the advice

AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 20

Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery

Analysis Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this

AI + ML08 Sep 2022 | 7

DeepMind AI reacts to the physically impossible like a human infant

Adding assumptions about objects better than learning from scratch, claims researcher

Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 6

Meet Flamingo, Deepmind's latest open-ended AI

Google says it outperforms comparable models despite needing fraction of training data

AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 4

Amazon, Google among backers of Eastern Europe AI site

Goal to prevent brain drain of talented computer scientists from region

AI + ML11 Apr 2022 | 3

DeepMind 'grossly inadequate' at tackling sexual harassment, says former staffer

Alphabet AI lab under fire after bosses 'dragged out' probe into abuse

AI + ML31 Mar 2022 | 17

Chinese Go Association suspends player 'for using AI'

A reminder: ML absolutely wipes the floor with humans at ancient game

AI + ML18 Mar 2022 | 11

DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient texts

'Ithaca' brings deep learning to the Greek epigrapher set

AI + ML09 Mar 2022 | 11

Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans

Gulp! Code that codes displays some critical thinking capabilities

AI + ML03 Feb 2022 | 82

Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients' data

Royal Free Hospital saga continues as representative action brought

Legal30 Sep 2021 | 15

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

Met Office, DeepMind, uni team hope their work will make a splash

AI + ML30 Sep 2021 | 58

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'

AI + ML22 Sep 2021 | 18

Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings

Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency

Science26 May 2021 | 81

DeepMind's latest protein-solving AI AlphaFold a step closer to cracking biology's 50-year conundrum

Lab hopes improved tool will be used to craft new medicines faster

AI + ML01 Dec 2020 | 29

AI-predicted protein structures could unlock vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus... if correct... after clinical trials

It's not quite DeepMind's 'Come with me if you want to live' moment, but it's close, maybe

AI + ML06 Mar 2020 | 23

DeepMind founder behind NHS data slurp to be beamed up to Google mothership

Great job, now let's do some applied AI with the big boys

Science06 Dec 2019 | 12

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

Updated Remember the UK DeepMind scandal? No?

Personal Tech12 Nov 2019 | 46

Thought you were good at StarCraft? DeepMind's AI bot proves better than 99.8% of fleshy humans

Not bad if you have over $3 million to splash out on cloud

AI + ML01 Nov 2019 | 30

All we need is just a little patients: Google's Alphabet hires new chief health officer

Third new senior health role in 4 months. Cough and say arrrrgh

On-Prem18 Oct 2019 | 7

Five NHS trusts do DeepMind data deal with Google. One says no

Delicious data hoard handed over from UK contracts

AI + ML19 Sep 2019 | 7

More facial-recognition bans, new creeper tool links girlfriends to past porno, Microsoft's AI school, and more

Roundup Plus machine systems can trounce humans at Quake III flag captures

AI + ML03 Jun 2019 | 15

Amazon woes and wins, IBM thinks it's solved employee happiness and Duplex phony phone calls everywhere!

Roundup Meanwhile, Apple is drinking Google's AI milkshake

AI + ML07 Apr 2019 | 46

Oooooklahoma, where the AI comes predictin' down the plain: Neural net spins up wind turbine power estimates

Grids may be able to better juggle solar electricity supplies using machine-learning code

AI + ML27 Feb 2019 | 3

Big names hurl millions of pounds at scheme to hoist UK's AI knowhow

We're Europe's tech hub, crows minister, but investment weedy compared to the US and China

AI + ML21 Feb 2019 | 15

AI gets carded, China and US agree on robot wars, Amazon claims Rekognition is just fine

Roundup And more from the world of machine learning

AI + ML11 Feb 2019 | 6

Human StarCraft II e-athletes crushed by neural net ace – DeepMind's AlphaStar

Analysis Computers 10 - 1 Humanity

AI + ML25 Jan 2019 | 25

DeepMind quits playing games with AI, ups the protein stakes with machine-learning code

Meet AlphaFold, an artificially intelligent system to predict crucial biochemical structures

AI + ML06 Dec 2018 | 10

Can you trust an AI data trust not to slurp your data?

Comment Data ownership is so yesterday. Give us all you've got... ethically

AI + ML20 Nov 2018 | 25

Google: Our DeepMind health slurp is completely kosher

Analysis Now go away, we’re saving the world

AI + ML15 Nov 2018 | 21

Google swallows up DeepMind Health and abolishes 'independent board'

All your Health Data are belong to us

AI + ML14 Nov 2018 | 60

Eye eye! AI could stop blindness, Facebook's after math, and how to get started in the ML biz

Roundup The week's other news in machine learning

AI + ML10 Nov 2018 | 9

A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom

Roundup Also applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme

AI + ML20 Oct 2018 | 24

I like BigGANs but their pics do lie, you other AIs can't deny

Pics Gaze at the computer-created horror of Dogball

AI + ML01 Oct 2018 | 22

US Senators want more AI, while Microsoftie Paul Allen wants to use it to save wildlife, etc

Roundup DeepMind also collaborating with Unity

AI + ML29 Sep 2018 | 4

How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out

Machine learning finds reality a whole different ball game

AI + ML25 Sep 2018 | 17

Hack Google's AI for cash, DeepMind gets cancerous, new Lobe for Redmond – and more

Roundup It's the week's other machine-learning news

AI + ML15 Sep 2018 | 2

Eye eye! DeepMind teams up with doctors to ogle eyeballs for illness

AI can help speed up diagnosis and seldom gets it wrong

AI + ML13 Aug 2018 | 14

Here's why AI can't make a catchier tune than the worst pop song in the charts right now

DeepMind tries to train a neural network on classical piano

AI + ML24 Jul 2018 | 61

AI bots suck at marking written essays, not too shabby at old Atari games, and more...

Roundup The week in AI

AI + ML07 Jul 2018 | 13

Just look at the state of AI today. Literally, look. There's a report on it – plus more ML news

Roundup Including DeepMind code, and Donald Duck's robo-cousin

AI + ML30 Jun 2018 | 3

UK.gov is not being advised by Google. Repeat. It is not being advised by Google

DeepMind's 'Demis Hassabis is an individual' – Ministry of Fun

AI + ML29 Jun 2018 | 25

DeepMind Health told to explain business model, relationship to Google

Review panel: We don't think AI firm has a hidden agenda, but…

Legal15 Jun 2018 | 14

Audit of DeepMind deal with NHS trust: It checks out, nothing to see here

Law firm's conclusions at odds with UK data watchdog, and critics don't feel any better

AI + ML13 Jun 2018 | 26

Artificial intelligence... or advanced imitation? How DeepMind used YouTube vids to train game-beating Atari bot

Video I think I'm a clone now

AI + ML31 May 2018 | 22