Computers can more easily recognize cats in photos and translate text because of advances in artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind, later acquired by Google, said on Monday that has seen no evidence that advances in A.I. technologies are impacting the workforce. Nevertheless, it's something that people "should definitely pay attention to" as the technologies continue to mature. Suleyman predicated that humanity is still "many decades away from encountering that sort of labor replacement at scale." Instead, the technology is best used to help humans with work-related tasks rather than replace them outright.

Google's machine learning subsidiary DeepMind has kicked off a new research partnership with the radiotherapy department at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a provider organization that specializes in cancer treatment. DeepMind and clinicians in UCLH's radiotherapy team are exploring whether machine learning methods can reduce the amount of time it takes to plan radiotherapy treatment for cancers of the head and neck. To that end, 1 in 75 men and 1 in 150 women will be diagnosed with oral cancer during their lifetime, and oral cavity cancer has risen by 92 percent since the 1970s, DeepMind said. Head and neck cancer in general affects more than 11,000 patients in the U.K. alone each year, the firm added. "Advances in treatment such as radiotherapy have improved survival rates, but because of the high number of delicate structures concentrated in this area of the body, clinicians have to plan treatment extremely carefully to ensure none of the vital nerves or organs are damaged," DeepMind said.

The Partnership on AI (inventive name, it is not) has brought together Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, and others to debate best practices and host A.I.-related events. The Partnership on AI isn't the first high-profile collaboration among tech luminaries to tackle the heavy questions surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning. Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined with venture capitalist Peter Thiel and others to launch OpenAI, a non-profit "artificial intelligence research company" devoted to developing A.I. that's friendly to humanity. While both OpenAI and the Partnership on AI are focused on promoting ethical A.I. research, as well as advancing public understanding of the potential (and pitfalls) of machine learning, OpenAI has pushed ahead in offering materials and toolkits for researchers. The OpenAI Gym, for example, is a platform for building reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, a vital aspect of artificial-intelligence development.

On Google's well documented purchase of British Artificial Intelligence start-up DeepMind, it's founder, Demis Hassabis, unveiled his two step plan for the company- And this is the very plan many Machine Learning, and A.I. experts around the world are working to. And how do we replicate it. Version 3.0's latest guest, Jakob Foerster, found himself sat in a room listening to Demis talk, whilst working for Google. He realised that his previous area of study, Physics, seemed to have a lot of the'big questions' answered. A.I and Machine Learning had so many new and exciting discoveries to be made.

Major technology firms have joined forces in a partnership on artificial intelligence, aiming to cooperate on "best practices" on using the technology "to benefit people and society." Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind on Wednesday announced a non-profit organization called "Partnership on AI" focused on helping the public understand the technology and practices in the field. The move comes amid concerns that new artificial intelligence efforts could spin out of control and end up being detrimental to society. The companies "will conduct research, recommend best practices, and publish research under an open license in areas such as ethics, fairness, and inclusivity; transparency, privacy, and interoperability; collaboration between people and AI systems; and the trustworthiness, reliability, and robustness of the technology," according to a statement. Academics, non-profit groups, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the board of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).

Nick Bostrom: London's DeepMind is winning the global race to develop human-level artificial intelligence (businessinsider.com) This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. Nick Bostrom, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence, has singled out London research lab DeepMind as the company closest to developing a system that can mimic human-level artificial intelligence - a target widely shared by those at the forefront of the AI industry. When asked who was leading the global AI race, Bostrom immediately responded with DeepMind. "Right now, I think here in London we have the DeepMind group who are, I think, the biggest [group] specifically focused on solving general intelligence," Bostrom told Business Insider at a breakfast meeting aboard the Sunbourn Yacht Hotel in East London on Wednesday.

This group is a huge step forward, breaking down barriers for AI teams to share best practices, research ways to maximize societal benefits, and tackle ethical concerns, and make it easier for those in other fields to engage with everyone's work," said Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind and Greg Corrado, Senior Research Scientist at Google in a statement.

Some of the world's biggest tech companies are teaming up to address the future of artificial intelligence and how it will affect privacy, safety, interoperability and collaboration between people and AI. Amazon, Google's DeepMind division, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have founded the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (PAI) to consider how and why AI developments, such as online facial recognition, might be a cause for concern. "Every new technology brings transformation, and transformation sometimes also causes fear in people who don't understand the transformation. One of the purposes of this group is really to explain and communicate the capabilities of AI, specifically the dangers and the basic ethical questions," said Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of AI. LeCun advises that the group will foster communication among those who build AI, bring in additional opinions from academia and civil society and inform the public on the progress of AI.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to explore the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agree on basic rules on privacy and ethics for the development of the industry. AI is considered the next big technological breakthrough and many firms are excited about the prospect of using it to gain an advantage in the marketplace. But the potential for misuse is clear so it is sensible that the main players with a big stake in the development of technology get together to set the boundaries. However, technology giant Apple is not currently at the table but has made noises it intends to join in the near future. DeepMind, which is part of Google's artificial intelligence division, shocked the world when they recently beat champion Go player Lee Sedol.

Major technology firms have joined forces in a partnership on artificial intelligence, aiming to cooperate on "best practices" on using the technology "to benefit people and society." Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind on Wednesday announced a non-profit organization called "Partnership on AI" focused on helping the public understand the technology and practices in the field. The move comes amid concerns that new artificial intelligence efforts could spin out of control and end up being detrimental to society. The companies "will conduct research, recommend best practices, and publish research under an open license in areas such as ethics, fairness, and inclusivity; transparency, privacy, and interoperability; collaboration between people and AI systems; and the trustworthiness, reliability, and robustness of the technology," according to a statement. Academics, non-profit groups, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the board of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).