Recently, researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind and the University of California, Berkeley proposed an AI framework for comparing child and AI agent behaviours and hence developing new exploration techniques. While developing a reinforcement learning agent, there are several questions related to…
IBM’s AI Learns To Generate New Footage From Video Stills
In a recent paper released by IBM, the company describes an AI system that generates videos that are seen during training, as well as the videos that are unseen. While Navsynth, the AI system, isn’t a novel idea, it’s indeed…
Why DeepMind Beating 99.8% Of Humans In StarCraft 2 Is Actually Great News For Us
Back in 2016, when Google’s DeepMind and Blizzard announced their partnership to push the limits of AI through StarCraft 2, the idea of an artificial intelligence beating the top players in the world seemed absurd. But this year in January…
DeepMind Introduces bsuite To Evaluate Performance Of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Reinforcement Learning has been widely used by machine learning researchers to achieve the purpose of artificial general intelligence and is one of the hottest topics in ML. RL has been applied in several ground-breaking advancements – beating StarCraft champions to…
After AlphaGo Zero’s Fabulous Win, Why Hasn’t DeepMind AI Come Up With Anything Spectacular?
DeepMind AI has explored chess and Go to develop its strongest programmes and sophisticated techniques, which is evident from the number of times it has beat human Go players. It improved a step further and developed AlphaGo Zero (AGZ), a…
Google’s DeepMind AI Takes An Aggressive Nature. Is That A Reason To Worry?
Self-preservation is an instinct that every human being has. Now imagine this, an AI that cannot process any emotions yet have the same instincts as humans and thinks to preserve itself over others! That is what researchers from Google-owned DeepMind…
Is DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero Really A Scientific Breakthrough And A Step Towards General Intelligence?
Ever since Demis Hassabis’s talk on Learning from First Principles at NIPS 2017 held last December, the internet is abuzz whether the Google-owned, London-headquartered DeepMind is close to solving the General Intelligence puzzle which have the company has been pursuing…
DeepMind helps AI to master a new skill— “Imagination”
Quite recently, there have been many interesting developments around Artificial Intelligence that has caught our curiosity. It began with the war of words between the tech leaders Musk and Mark on whether having AI regulation is a necessity or not,…
When Google’s DeepMind sought AI capabilities in Blizzard’s StarCraft II
The famous StarCraft videogames by Blizzard turning into a platform for AI research might sound quite bizarre, but yes that’s what DeepMind has done in its recent partnership with Blizzard Entertainment. The game that has long challenged the competitiveness of…