DeepMind’s FunSearch AI can tackle mathematical problems alengo/Getty Images Google DeepMind claims to have made the first ever scientific discovery with an AI chatbot by building a fact-checker to filter out useless outputs, leaving only reliable solutions to mathematical or computing problems. Previous DeepMind achievements, such as using AI to predict the weather or protein … Read more
Gemini can handle text, audio and video Google Google has launched a new AI model, dubbed Gemini, which it claims can outperform both OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and “expert level” humans in a range of intelligence tests. The firm’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, revealed the existence of Gemini at Google’s I/O conference in May this year, although … Read more
Can AI tell you if you will need an umbrella? SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images AI can predict the weather 10 days ahead more accurately than current state-of-the-art simulations, says AI firm Google DeepMind – but meteorologists have warned against abandoning weather models based in real physical principles and just relying on patterns in data, … Read more
AI models have a tendency to tell us what we want to hear Reismedia/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence chatbots tend to agree with the opinions of the person using them, even to the point that they nod along to objectively false statements. Research shows that this problem gets worse as language models increase in size, adding weight … Read more
Sorting algorithms are a vital part of computing BEST-BACKGROUNDS/Shutterstock An algorithm used trillions of times a day around the world could run up to 70 per cent faster, thanks to an artificial intelligence created by UK-based firm DeepMind. It has found an improved way for computers to sort data that has been overlooked by human … Read more
In the Atari game Skiing, the object is to move left and right to hit poles while avoiding trees An artificial intelligence has learned to play the Atari computer game Skiing 6000 times more quickly just by reading the instruction manual first. The same approach could help teach AIs to drive cars or robots to … Read more