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Google’s Deep Mind shapes up proteins

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by Alternative Intelligence
The London based Deep Mind AI lab has just solved one of the biggest mysteries of biology, namely… the predicted shape of proteins. Knowing the shape of a protein can help with … Read more

Google’s AI goes cold calling

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast
In the locked down UK, Google are using it’s AI phone assistant Duplex to ring round businesses to find out what their opening hours are in these Covid-19 days. Duplex sounds very … Read more

Mustafa joins Google

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence
The co-founder of British AI firm DeepMind, Mr Mustafa Suleyman is to join Google. His work at DeepMind saw him collaborating with Google over reducing energy consumption at their Data Centres, also … Read more

Go master ‘stops’

November 29, 2019November 28, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast
Go, the Chinese strategy game, has a new master, apparently one that can’t be defeated says former Go master Lee Se-dol. Three years ago he was challenged to a five game showdown … Read more

Explainable AI

November 25, 2019November 24, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence
That giant of data crunching, Google, is launching Explainable AI. Whether this is because Google is perceived to be lagging behind Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure is uncertain. Professor Andrew Moore … Read more

Alphabet’s DeepMind AI achieves Grandmaster status playing Starcraft 2

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast
Alphabet, the parent company of Google used DeepMind AI anonymously to play against real gamers and in so doing became a Grandmaster of Starcraft 2. Alphabet sought the assistance of Blizzard who … Read more

AI software engineer resigns over Project Maven.

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 by Artificial Iconoclast
An engineer recruited by Google and later assigned to work on Project Maven has resigned over ethical concerns. Laura Nolan, a computer science graduate from Trinity College Dublin became increasingly concerned over … Read more

AI helps plait ‘fog’

September 6, 2019September 7, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence
The ‘fog’ mentioned in the title is my poetic licence for plasma. The quest for limitless fuel with minimal pollution has been the dream for many generations. Renewables such as solar and … Read more

Has Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) been upstaged?

August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 by Alternative Intelligence
Google’s TPU is a custom ASIC specifically designed for machine learning with the accent on TensorFlow. It’s been in use now for a couple of years and has also been powering RankBrain, … Read more
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