Posts in category: Deepmind

While there is a lot of excitement about AI research, there are also concerns about the way it might be implemented, used and abused.Read More

Hannah investigates the more human side of the technology, some ethical issues around how it is developed and used, and the efforts to create a future of AI that works for everyone.Read More

The ambition of AI research is to create systems that can help to solve problems in the real world.Read More

Hannah Fry meets the scientists building systems that could be used to save the sight of thousands; help us solve one of the most fundamental problems in biology, and reduce energy consumption in an effort to combat climate change.Read More

Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMind’s robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call ‘embodied AI’: robot arms that are learning tasks like picking up plastic bricks, which humans find comparatively easy.Read More

Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMinds robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call embodied AI.Read More

Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. In this episode, Hannah sits down to play StarCraft II – a challenging video game that requires players to control the onscreen action with as many as 800 clicks a minute.Read More

Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. Why?Read More

The story of AlphaGo, first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone considered a decade ahead of its time.Read More

In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to be a decade ahead of its time.Read More