-
Research
Stacking our way to more general robots
Picking up a stick and balancing it atop a log or stacking a pebble on a stone may seem like simple — and quite similar — actions for a person. However, most robots struggle with handling more...
-
Research
Predicting gene expression with AI
When the Human Genome Project succeeded in mapping the DNA sequence of the human genome, the international research community were excited by the opportunity to better understand the genetic...
-
Research
Nowcasting the next hour of rain
Our lives are dependent on the weather. At any moment in the UK, according to one study, one third of the country has talked about the weather in the past hour, reflecting the importance of...
-
Research
Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviours from Curious Exploration
We argue that merely using curiosity for fast environment exploration or as a bonus reward for a specific task does not harness the full potential of this technique and misses useful skills....
-
Research
Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models
In our paper, we focus on LMs and their propensity to generate toxic language. We study the effectiveness of different methods to mitigate LM toxicity, and their side-effects, and we investigate...
-
Research
Building architectures that can handle the world’s data
Most architectures used by AI systems today are specialists. A 2D residual network may be a good choice for processing images, but at best it’s a loose fit for other kinds of data — such as the...
-
Research
Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play
In recent years, artificial intelligence agents have succeeded in a range of complex game environments. For instance, AlphaZero beat world-champion programs in chess, shogi, and Go after starting...
-
Research
Enabling high-accuracy protein structure prediction at the proteome scale
Many novel machine learning innovations contribute to AlphaFold’s current level of accuracy. We give a high-level overview of the system below; for a technical description of the network...
-
Research
Melting Pot: an evaluation suite for multi-agent reinforcement learning
Here we introduce Melting Pot, a scalable evaluation suite for multi-agent reinforcement learning. Melting Pot assesses generalisation to novel social situations involving both familiar and...
-
Company
An update on our racial justice efforts
In June 2020, after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis (USA) and the solidarity that followed as millions spoke out at Black Lives Matter protests around the world, I – like many others –...
-
Impact
Advancing sports analytics through AI research
Creating testing environments to help progress AI research out of the lab and into the real world is immensely challenging. Given AI’s long association with games, it is perhaps no surprise that...
-
Research
Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis
Modern AI systems approach tasks like recognising objects in images and predicting the 3D structure of proteins as a diligent student would prepare for an exam. By training on many example...
