DeepMind has built a neural network that can access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine. The result is a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.

Google googl is teaming up with the U.K.'s government health care system to see whether its artificial intelligence tech can help detect and prevent eye diseases and blindness. The tech giant announced the collaboration between subsidiary DeepMind (acquired in 2014) and the National Health Service (NHS) in a blog post on Tuesday. DeepMind uses various algorithms to help machines learn from the data they analyze. Google will use DeepMind to pore over 1 million anonymous eye scans collected by the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust over the years with the goal of creating a faster, more efficient method for analyzing the data and coming to an earlier diagnosis. Click here to subscribe to our new Brainstorm Health Daily Newsletter.

When Google acquired British Artificial Intelligence (AI) company DeepMind for over 500 million in 2014, it was part of a wave of increasing hype about the potential of machine learning to transform societies and economies worldwide. Two years later and commercial opportunities for DeepMind and AI tech are beginning to be explored more. Beating humans at notoriously complex board games and within hospitals on healthcare projects has ensured that DeepMind remains in the headlines, but in terms of commercial value, the technology's full potential is still relatively unexplored. However, Google has announced that it has now unlocked one of those initial possibilities applying an AI system to control energy use in parts of its data centres. Power consumption is typically extremely high in data centres, where large electrical servers are prevented from overheating by a network of cooling units. During a testing phase in the first part of 2016, Google reportedly achieved a 40% reduction in energy use at its data centres through employing DeepMind to optimise consumption.

An Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence research group just got a brand new toy from chip maker Nvidia. Nvidia nvda said on Monday that it had donated one of its new supercomputers to the OpenAI non-profit artificial intelligence research project. OpenAI debuted in December with financial backing from Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk along with money from other high-profile technology luminaries like LinkedIn lnkd co-founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal pypl co-founder Peter Thiel. OpenAI's goal is partly to create a non-profit outside the corporate sector that could research artificial intelligence technologies without a financial incentive. The concern is that many companies like Google and Facebook that are researching artificial intelligence technologies would horde talent and only work on projects beneficial to their financial interests.

This article focuses not what the athletes are putting into their bodies, but what they are putting on their bodies and shows how technology affects gears used by them. An hour long lecture by Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind, where he discusses what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, including the recent historic AlphaGo match, and its future potential impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. Here, Margaret Boden, a Professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, examines what it means to be "creative" and whether we can ever translate this into our computers. Steven Pinker believes there's some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopocalypse. Could artificial intelligence become evil or are alpha male scientists just projecting?

In 2014, Google acquired the artificial intelligence startup DeepMind, but it wasn't cheap. With a price tag of 500M, there must have been something special that Google saw in DeepMind that was worth acquiring. While the company hasn't produced any actual products for commercial use, they have focused on machine learning. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that aims to provide computers with the ability to learn new information without being directed to do so. Machine learning involves the development of computer programs that have the ability to teach themselves to grow and alter themselves when presented with new data.

The DGX-1 is a huge advance," OpenAI Research Scientist Ilya Sutskever said. "It will allow us to explore problems that were completely unexplored before, and it will allow us to achieve levels of performance that weren't achievable." OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company with a goal "to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. "Artificial intelligence has the potential to be the most positive technology that humans ever create," said OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Greg Brockman. "It has the potential to unlock the solutions to problems that have really plagued us for a very long time."

OpenAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence research company, just became the proud owner of the first ever DGX-1 supercomputer. Made by NVIDIA, the rig boasts a whopping 170 teraflops of computing power, equivalent to 250 usual servers -- and OpenAI is gonna use it all to read Reddit comments. OpenAI's researchers gather around the first AI supercomputer in a box, NVIDIA DGX-1. OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company whose purpose is to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." And now, NVIDIA CEO CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just delivered the most powerful tool the company has ever had at its disposal, a US 2 billion supercomputer.

Uber will test its fleet of autonomous cars in Pittsburg. Some guy made a bionic hand out of a coffee machine. This article focuses not what the athletes are putting into their bodies, but what they are putting on their bodies and shows how technology affects gears used by them. An hour long lecture by Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind, where he discusses what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, including the recent historic AlphaGo match, and its future potential impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. Here, Margaret Boden, a Professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, examines what it means to be "creative" and whether we can ever translate this into our computers.