Tag: programming

• Google’s DeepMind goes undercover to battle gamers

  July 11, 2019

  Gamers in Europe are being invited to take on a bot developed by some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence researchers. But there’s a twist: players will not be told… more ›

• Inside Amazon’s German AI research program

  May 26, 2019

  BERLIN — Deep in the heart of Germany, a team of scientists is trying to crack one of the fundamental problems of artificial intelligence: teaching a machine to understand cause… more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  March 18, 2019

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar

  January 3, 2019

  Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›

• Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

  December 7, 2018

  Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding Turns out mastering chess and Go was just for starters. On 2 December, the Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind took top honors in the 13th… more ›

• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button

  June 9, 2018

  GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button » Oh, GitHub, we knew ye … pretty well, actually, over the past decade. At least programmers did. more ›

• Replacing Middle Management with APIs

  May 20, 2018

  Replacing Middle Management with APIs » There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have… more ›