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AI was central to two of 2024’s Nobel prize categories. It’s a sign of things to come

The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry have given us a glimpse of the future of science. Artificial intelligence (AI) was central to the discoveries honoured by both awards. You have to wonder what Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes, would think of it all.

The Conversation

Black and White's AI programmer just won a Nobel prize: 'an incredible honor, it's the big one really'

Demis Hassabis, best-known for his work with DeepMind, is one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

PC Gamer

Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for using machine learning to tackle one of biology’s biggest challenges: predicting the 3D shape of proteins and designing them from scratch.

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Demis Hassabis, From Chess Prodigy To Nobel-winning AI Pioneer

Long before Demis Hassabis pioneered artificial intelligence techniques to earn a Nobel prize, he was a master of board games.

International Business Times

Demis Hassabis: from video game designer to Nobel prize winner

Google DeepMind chief believes in benefits of AI but says risks must be taken as seriously as the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

Google DeepMind leaders Hassabis and Jumper win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

It's clear that 2024 is the year of AI breaking into the world's most prestigious scientific awards.

Fortune

Nobel Prize awarded to Google DeepMind researchers who pioneered new AI system

‘AlphaFold’ tool has the potential to transform our understanding of the building blocks of life

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Google DeepMind scientists and biochemist win Nobel chemistry prize

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind and computational biologist David Baker share prize for protein structure breakthroughs

The Guardian - UK

Samsung Galaxy S25 could turn to a new chip — and it may not be Snapdragon

Google may have accidentally spilled the beans on Samsung's plans for the Galaxy S25's system-on-chip, with the leak suggesting the phone will feature a MediaTek Dimensity chip and not Snapdragon or Exynos silicon.

Tom’s Guide

‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?

Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on

The Guardian - UK

Google DeepMind workers protest over US military and defense contracts

DeepMind criticized for its affiliation with Google’s military contracts.

TechRadar

Google's DeepMind AI can now play table tennis to a competitive level

A bot powered by AI blasted away beginner opponents but struggled against faster human players.

TechRadar

Google DeepMind can beat humans at table tennis

Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.

LiveScience

Midjourney has competition — I got access to Google Imagen 3 and it is impressive

Google DeepMind published its new Imagen 3 AI video model earlier this year and it is now available for some users in the ImageFX experiment.

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Google just dropped Gemma 2 — the power of GPT-3.5 on a phone is here

Google DeepMind is investing in its Gemma family of open-source models including create small but mighty options.

The Guardian - UK

Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths

Team of two new AI systems score one point short of gold medal in global maths contest for gifted students

LiveScience

'ChatGPT moment for biology': Ex-Meta scientists develop AI model that creates proteins 'not found in nature'

The ESM3 model can 'write' new proteins from scratch, opening up new possibilities for synthetic biology.

Fortune

Google AI heavyweight Jeff Dean talks about algorithmic breakthroughs and data center emissions

The longtime Googler gave an update on AI initiatives at the Alphabet owned company, including project Astra, and addressed the recent report that Google's data center emissions have increased.

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Google's AI robots are learning from watching movies – just like the rest of us

Google DeepMind is teaching robots embedded with Gemini AI models how to move and carry out tasks using training videos.

Tom’s Hardware

Current AIs only have the IQ level of a cat, asserts Google DeepMind CEO

The CEO of Google DeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence and domestic cats. However, AI is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute investments propelling it forward.

Tom’s Hardware

Google claims new AI training tech is 13 times faster and 10 times more power efficient — DeepMind's new JEST optimizes training data for impressive gains

DeepMind researchers have published their findings on the JEST technique, allowing large language models to be trained at significantly improved speed and efficiency. It remains to be seen whether companies will adopt it to keep power draw low, or crank things to the max.

PC Gamer

The internet is not a free-for-all—we shouldn't let big tech companies wish copyright out of existence

Is everything on the internet fair game for AI? Nope, and it never has been.

Salon

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

TechRadar

AI-generated movies will be here sooner than you think – and Google DeepMind's new tool proves it

Google DeepMind's new tool can generate soundtracks, audio, and dialogue for AI videos –and that's an explosive combination.

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13 former and current OpenAI employees with endorsements by 'The Godfathers of AI' outline 4 key measures to address AI risks

Current and former employees at top AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, have penned a letter addressing some of the risks centered on generative AI.

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