Towards the future

AI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s Director of Research, describes the journey to get there, and takes Hannah on a whistle-stop tour of DeepMind’s HQ and its research.

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Further reading: OpenAI: An overview of neural networks and the progress that has been made in AI Shane Legg, DeepMind co-founder: Measuring machine intelligence at the 2010 Singularity Summit Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter: Paper on defining machine intelligence Demis Hassabis: Talk on the history, frontiers and capabilities of AI Robert Wiblin: Positively shaping the development of artificial intelligence Asilomar AI Principles Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Interviewees: Koray Kavukcuoglu, Director of Research; Trevor Back, Product Manager for DeepMind’s science research; research scientists Raia Hadsell and Murray Shanahan; and DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis.

Credits: Presenter: Hannah Fry Editor: David Prest Senior Producer: Louisa Field Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet) Commissioned by DeepMind

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