Starting this weekend, the thirty-ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022) is meeting from 17-23 July, 2022 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland, USA, and will be running as a hybrid event. Researchers working across artificial intelligence, data science, machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and more are presenting and publishing their cutting-edge work in machine learning.Read More
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology
Despite significant effort, current AI systems pale in their understanding of intuitive physics, in comparison to even very young children. In the present work, we address this AI problem, specifically by drawing on the field of developmental psychology.Read More
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology
Despite significant effort, current AI systems pale in their understanding of intuitive physics, in comparison to even very young children. In the present work, we address this AI problem, specifically by drawing on the field of developmental psychology.Read More
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI
In our recent paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, we provide a proof-of-concept demonstration that deep reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to find economic policies that people will vote for by majority in a simple game. The paper thus addresses a key challenge in AI research – how to train AI systems that align with human values.Read More
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI
In our recent paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, we provide a proof-of-concept demonstration that deep reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to find economic policies that people will vote for by majority in a simple game. The paper thus addresses a key challenge in AI research – how to train AI systems that align with human values.Read More
Reflections from ethics and safety ‘on the ground’ at DeepMind
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
Leading a movement to strengthen machine learning in Africa
Avishkar Bhoopchand, a research engineer on the Game Theory and Multi-agent team, shares his journey to DeepMind and how he’s working to raise the profile of deep learning across Africa.Read More
BYOL-Explore: Exploration with Bootstrapped Prediction
We present BYOL-Explore, a conceptually simple yet general approach for curiosity-driven exploration in visually-complex environments. BYOL-Explore learns a world representation, the world dynamics, and an exploration policy all-together by optimizing a single prediction loss in the latent space with no additional auxiliary objective. We show that BYOL-Explore is effective in DM-HARD-8, a challenging partially-observable continuous-action hard-exploration benchmark with visually-rich 3-D environments.Read More