Y Combinator General Partner Ankit Gupta and Visiting Partner Francois Chaubard discussed world models as a promising solution to sample efficiency, one of AI's biggest open problems, in a Decoded epi…
Hudson River Trading (HRT), an algorithmic trading firm, applies artificial intelligence to financial markets by defining AI as a system that perceives its environment and acts to achieve goals. The f…
GPT-3 is not AGI but language modeling differs from other AI domains because natural language encodes a world model. Scaling language models may drive loss toward Shannon entropy, yielding a usable wo…
DeepMind hired political philosopher Iason Gabriel in 2017 to address ethical challenges of artificial general intelligence, making him the first active philosopher at a frontier AI lab. Gabriel's wor…
Reinforcement learning trains AI agents through trial and error, rewarding desired actions and penalizing mistakes, similar to teaching a dog to fetch. This approach powers systems like AlphaGo, robot…
Generative AI delivers results without providing understanding, mirroring AlphaGo's 2016 move 37 that no human could explain. The loss of insight into how solutions are derived reduces transferable kn…
Researchers at Princeton University have developed AI-driven methods to design radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that outperform human-designed chips in performance and are created in a frac…
A Hacker News user asks what AI coding will look like when today's computer science freshmen graduate in four years, noting rapid progress from ChatGPT 3.5 to Claude Code and LLMs solving advanced mat…
A developer asks whether combining Monte Carlo Tree Search with transformer-based AI architectures could produce more creative outputs, citing MCTS's role in AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol.…
Alberto argues that humans can remain irreplaceable in the AI era by focusing on skills that cannot be measured or described, such as creativity and lived experience. He notes that AI excels at tasks …
Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership with HSBC to accelerate AI adoption across the bank's global operations, focusing on hyper-personalized wealth management, financial crime risk manageme…
David Silver, the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has chosen Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence, which aims to build a 'superlearner' AI system. …
A patient wakes from a nine-year coma to find the world transformed by a pandemic, political shifts, and AI-generated content. The tech industry has collapsed, making jobs scarce and the App Store ove…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton predicts AI will surpass humans in mathematics within 10 years, arguing math is a closed system like chess or Go. Hinton, who resigned from Google in 2023 over AI safety…
Sergey Brin said at Google DeepMind Build Day that artificial intelligence can enhance human performance rather than replace jobs, using the board game Go as an example. Brin noted that top players Le…
Google cofounder Sergey Brin said during a fireside chat at Google DeepMind Build Day that artificial intelligence will not make human achievement obsolete, citing the game of Go as an example. Brin n…
A developer spent the past week studying research papers on AlphaZero and AlphaGo while beginning implementation of a strategy for the Kaggle Orbit Wars competition. The developer also secured an inte…
NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver, announced a collaboration to build infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning. The part…
Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, told Y Combinator that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive by 2030, giving founders a four-year window to prepare. He outl…
Google DeepMind has announced a partnership with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI, support local talent, and cultivat…