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Imagine this: Creating new visual concepts by recombining familiar ones

AIJuly 11, 2017

Around two and a half thousand years ago a Mesopotamian trader gathered some clay, wood and reeds and changed humanity forever. Over time,...

Producing flexible behaviours in simulated environments

AIJuly 9, 2017

The agility and flexibility of a monkey swinging through the trees or a football player dodging opponents and scoring a goal can be...

Cost Per Word is a sacred cow of the translation world. It’s time to kill it.

AIJuly 5, 2017

Translation services have traditionally been offered on a cost-per-word basis; and there are good reasons why. It’s transparent: we all agree on what...

Independent Reviewers release first annual report on DeepMind Health

AIJuly 4, 2017

Today, a panel of Independent Reviewers has published its first annual report into DeepMind Health. As I wrote in the foreword to their report (written,...

DeepMind expands to Canada with new research office in Edmonton, Alberta

AIJuly 4, 2017

Here's what others have to say about DeepMind Alberta:Rich Sutton:"DeepMind has had a special emphasis on reinforcement learning right from the beginning, and...

The Information Commissioner, the Royal Free, and what we’ve learned

AIJuly 2, 2017

Today, dozens of people in UK hospitals will die preventably from conditions like sepsis and acute kidney injury (AKI) when their warning signs...

Interpreting Deep Neural Networks using Cognitive Psychology

AIJune 26, 2017

References (1 ) Markman, Ellen M. Constraints children place on word meanings. Cognitive Science, 14(1):57–77, 1990.(2) Landau, Barbara, Smith, Linda B, and Jones, Susan...

Unbabel contributes to the EU-funded INTERACT crisis translation project

AIJune 21, 2017

What if you found yourself in the middle of a crisis – and the only information available to you was in a language...

Enhancing patient safety at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

AIJune 20, 2017

Netty Messenger, a patient and volunteer at Musgrove Park Hospital, welcomed the trust’s progress towards mobile working: “This is a great idea. I...

Learning through human feedback

AIJune 11, 2017

In the Atari game Enduro, which involves steering a car to overtake a line of others and is very difficult to learn by...

A neural approach to relational reasoning

AIJune 5, 2017

Each image has associated questions that interrogates the relations between objects in the scene. For example, a question about the image above might...