AI Wars: Google is giving DeepMind staff year-long paid break to stop them from joining rivals
Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis, offers employees a year of paid leave instead of working for competitors amid the ...
Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals
Google's AI division, DeepMind, has reportedly resorted to using 'aggressive' noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the ...
What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog
Animal trainers know that animal behavior can be influenced by rewarding desirable behaviors. A dog trainer gives the dog a treat when it does a trick correctly. This reinforces the behavior, and the ...
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Not a truth engine: Microsoft pitches AI as a lifelong assistant but only delivers fabricated simulations
Even efforts to refine outputs through user instruction, such as feedback or enforced rules, hit a wall. Microsoft’s consumer ...
Microsoft AI chief Suleyman sees advantage in building models ‘3 or 6 months behind'
Training the top models in the world is very expensive and can duplicate previous work, said Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of ...
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Google's Dreamer AI uses imagination to conquer Minecraft’s most difficult task
Google’s Dreamer AI learned Minecraft without human data, using imagination and reinforcement learning to mine diamonds in ...
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Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new ...
Microsoft gives Copilot its own memory in new push to personalize its AI assistant
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens the Copilot and 50th anniversary event Friday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) REDMOND, ...
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This AI Speedrunner Taught Itself to Play Minecraft
The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of ...
Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI will match human skills by 2030 — and warns of existential threats that could ‘permanently destroy humanity’
DeepMind has released a 145-page paper outlining its approach to AI safety as it tries to build advanced systems that could ...