Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide - TechRepublic

With the boom in AI affecting virtually every industry, there has been an explosion in the research and development of machine learning, a subfield of AI. And, perhaps, no company better illustrates what machine learning is capable of than Google's DeepMind. Founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind has developed machine learning systems that uses deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, and systems neuroscience-inspired models. The startup was purchased in January 2014 by Google for a rreported 400 million, with Hassabis remaining CEO of DeepMind. Instead of relying on explicit programming, DeepMind applies general-purpose learning algorithms to a large data set in order to "train" the system and make predictions.