DeepMind, Alphabet’s ARTIFICIAL intelligence company based in London, England, is recruiting researchers from the US to help develop Google products, as well as stepping up trans-Atlantic technology collaboration, Bloomberg reported.
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DeepMind is using its website to recruit “applied research scientists” to work at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. DeepMind said it planned to recruit dozens of US experts and set up “small teams” in the US to act as a communication link between Google and the London team, helping them work more closely together to bring their research to Google users around the world.
DeepMind, which previously had no operations outside London, said in its recruitment: “The Mountain View applications team will be made up of software engineers and research scientists who will work together to help Google solve real-world problems.” The new team will have a separate office at Google’s headquarters. Google Brain, another AI research group, is also based at the company’s headquarters, but it uses machine learning to improve Google products. Both teams are scrambling to recruit experts in artificial intelligence.
DeepMind is being split into two parts, one for pure computer science research and the other for what is called the Applications division, which is trying to build real-world products and services based on artificial intelligence. DeepMind currently employs 350 people, three-quarters of whom work in research and the rest in applications. Applications has launched two pilot projects with the NHS, including eye scans using ARTIFICIAL intelligence. But its main customer remains Google itself.
The unit uses machine learning to figure out how to make Google’s data centers around the world more efficient. They have helped reduce the energy needed for cooling equipment by 40 percent, while improving overall energy efficiency by 15 percent. Google has already said that these improvements have generated significant savings for Google, enough to justify its decision to buy DeepMind for £400m in 2014.
Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind’s co-founder and head of the company’s applications division, said he would use similar technology to try to improve the efficiency of the national grid. The company also said its AI technology could be used for other things, such as Google display ads and the Google App Store shopping experience.
DeepMind recently made a breakthrough in computer-generated language, with an AI system that can correctly predict how part of a sound wave will form. In the future, Google could use this technology in its products, such as its personal digital assistant. The new job includes reinforcement learning, which uses rewards (such as game points) to teach AI programs how to perform tasks that are closely related to how to solve real-world problems.
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DeepMind’s most famous AI program is AlphaGo, which beat the world go master earlier this year. The victory was seen as a milestone in the history of computer science because go has so many possible moves that it is difficult for computers to win using raw computing power. AlphaGo relies more on its human-like ability to devise winning strategies. (a little)