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Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs Says It Will Use AI to Discover New Drugs
Alphabet has spun off a new company called Isomorphic Labs which seeks to use artificial intelligence to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. The commercial venture will reportedly build off of advancements made by Alphabet’s DeepMind, which used a model called AlphaFold2 to predict the shape of proteins in the human body with near-perfect accuracy, something viewed…
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Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer To The Singularity
Remember AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence to defeat a grandmaster at Go? Well, the program just got a major upgrade, and it can now teach itself how to dominate the game without any human intervention. But get this: In a tournament that pitted AI against AI, this juiced-up version, called AlphaGo Zero, defeated the regular…
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Google’s AlphaGo Handily Beats Teen World Champion In First Match
Humanity could really use a win right now, and the latest test comes out of China, where a teenager named Ke Jie — the world’s best player of the ancient game Go — is taking on Google’s ultra powerful AlphaGo computer program. Unfortunately for us humans, it’s not looking great so far.
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Google’s AlphaGo Is Slaying Unsuspecting Nerds Online
Over the last few days, an unknown Go player named “Master” has won 60 of 61 online matches against some of the best players in the world. Google has now fessed-up, admitting that “Master” is actually the AlphaGo AI, and that it has been secretly playing humans in order to test an improved version.