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Google DeepMind creates new watermarking tool
Published in AI
Wednesday, 30 August 2023 11:28

Google DeepMind creates new watermarking tool


Labels if image has been made using AI

Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI. 

DeepMind co-founder calls for a better Turing test for AI
Published in AI


The old Turing test is not meaningful enough it needs to make money

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman suggests chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard should be put through a "modern Turing test" where their ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million is evaluated to measure human-like intelligence.

AI will kill off search engines
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Wednesday, 24 May 2023 11:34

AI will kill off search engines


Gates predicts

Software King of the World Sir William Gates III claims that AI will soon create personal digital agents for humans so that they never have to go to a productivity site or Amazon again.

Deep Mind improves matrices maths
Published in AI
Friday, 07 October 2022 10:09

Deep Mind improves matrices maths


Improved 50 years worth of maths classes

Google’s DeepMind has been using applied reinforced learning techniques to the multiplication of mathematical matrices and can do it better than some 50 year-old human-made algorithms.

Apple in a panic after key staffers revolt
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We don’t want to come back to the flying saucer

Yesterday we reported out Apple backpedalled over its insistence that its staff return to the flying saucer and stop working from home.

Deepmind rubbish at spotting sexual harassment
Published in AI


In this case it is a human problem

It is starting to look like the humans behind AI are worse than the actual technology as a former DeepMind employee has blasted the AI lab for being “grossly inadequate" in dealing with internal sexual harassment.

AI software helps date and decode ancient Greek texts
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Reconstructing works destroyed by time

AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature.

DeepMind AI can code like an average developer
Published in AI
Thursday, 03 February 2022 12:25

DeepMind AI can code like an average developer


Is that a good thing?

DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says "writes computer programs at a competitive level." Of course, it didn't say what sort of competition. Most developers would do well in an inhaling pizza competition, or most doughnuts consumed within eight seconds and most of these could be carried out while writing code. 

Google’s Deepmind has key breakthrough
Published in AI
Tuesday, 01 December 2020 10:31

Google’s Deepmind has key breakthrough


Solves the problem of protein folding and confirms the existance of rice pudding

A 50 year old science problem has been solved and could allow for dramatic changes in the fight against diseases, researchers say.

DeepMind beats 99.8 percent of StarCraft II players
Published in AI


Grandmaster level

Google's DeepMind today announced a new milestone for its artificial intelligence agents trained to play the Blizzard Entertainment game StarCraft II – it is now a grand master.