7 June 2023
Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions of programs run faster
4 March 2023
An artificial intelligence has learned to master an Atari skiing game in days of playing time rather than the decades it took a specialist DeepMind AI, simply by reading the instructions written for humans before it started
14 February 2023
With the recent news that the ChatGPT AI can pass a theory of mind test, how far away are we from an artificial intelligence that fully understands the goals and beliefs of others?
20 December 2022
Research firm DeepMind has built an AI to optimise cooling systems in buildings. In tests, it reduced energy usage by around 10 per cent
13 October 2022
One week after DeepMind revealed an algorithm for multiplying numbers more efficiently, researchers have an even better way to carry out the task
5 October 2022
Matrix multiplication - where two grids of numbers are multiplied together - forms the basis of many computing tasks, and an improved technique discovered by an artificial intelligence could boost computation speeds by up to 20 per cent
31 August 2022
DeepMind's artificial intelligence has learned to play soccer from decades worth of computer simulations
29 July 2022
Understanding proteins and their complex 3D shapes is key to understanding life, and especially for developing drugs
28 July 2022
Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months, a breakthrough that will speed drug development and revolutionise basic science
11 July 2022
An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't
