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Google DeepMind’s GenRM Revolutionizes AI Accuracy with Self-Validating Models

Large language models (LLMs) can create human-like text and tackle complex reasoning tasks. The technology has evolved rapidly in recent years, benefiting from advancements in machine learning (ML) algorithms, ...Full Article

Google DeepMind’s New AlphaFold Model Poised to Revolutionize Drug Discovery

Google DeepMind, an Alphabet subsidiary focusing on AI, ML, and neuroscience research, has unveiled an improved version of its AI model that predicts the structure and interactions between biological ...Full Article

AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority

Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says ...Full Article

DeepMind Experimenting with Its Nascent Gopher 280 Billion Parameter Language Model

When it comes to language models, the name of the game is the development of ever more powerful models that push the boundaries of generating accurate and usable text ...Full Article

DeepMind, Google’s AI Unit, Reports Big Loss

DeepMind requires deep pockets. Reports surfaced this week that the London-based AI lab acquired in 2014 by Google parent Alphabet for about $600 million lost a staggering $649 million ...Full Article

New AI Training Method Works on Individual Desktops, Laptops

Training AI models can be incredibly computationally intensive. Researchers often use supercomputers to ready the models, and the impact can be severe: the training process for a single model ...Full Article

Google, DeepMind Target Machine Learning at Wind Energy

Wind energy adoption is further along than you might think: Iowa, for example, is expected to generate about half its electrical power from wind within a few years; in ...Full Article

Google AlphaGo Zero Trains Self to Beat the ‘God of Go’

Imagine if all the atoms in the universe could be added up to a single number. Big number, right?  Maybe the biggest number conceivable. But wait, there’s a bigger ...Full Article
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