Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind is a team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts who work to advance artificial intelligence. It is owned by , and headquartered in London.
==History==
DeepMind was founded by Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg, on September 23, 2010. It was originally named Friars 2022 Limited. It is a Private Limited Company. On November 15, 2010, the organisation changed its name to DeepMind. As of 2021, the directors are Kenneth Hohee Yi and Ronan Aubyn Harris.
In 2019, Suleyman was investigated by a law firm for bullying staff, was stripped of his managerial responsibilities, and placed on leave. Suleyman left the company for a role at Google.
The first major investment in DeepMind came from . was another early investor. In 2014, DeepMind was purchased by Google for around $600 million. Google won the deal over Facebook.
DeepMind established their scholarships programme in 2017, in an effort to help build a more inclusive AI community. The scholarships provide financial support to students from underrepresented groups seeking to study graduate courses relating to AI and adjacent fields. Scholars are also offered support from a DeepMind mentor, and have opportunities to attend leading AI academic conferences and DeepMind events.
In March 2019, DeepMind announced the opening of the DeepMind Paris lab, their first lab in continental Europe.
In August 2019, DeepMind announced their podcast.
DeepMind supports professorships at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and scholarships at University College London.
===NHS data sharing controversy===
In September 2015, DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) signed a controversial patient-data sharing agreement, ostensibly to develop an app for the detection of kidney disease. 1.6 million patients were not made aware that their medical records were shared with DeepMind. An investigation was opened by the UK’s data protection watchdog into the legality of the arrangement. DeepMind claimed that they did not need patient consent, because the app would be used for direct patient care. In 2017, the watchdog declared that the NHS Trust broke the law. DeepMind appointed a group to independent reviewers to look at the deal.
==Projects==
In 2016, DeepMind built an AI system which helped save around 30% of the energy needed to cool Google’s data centres. The company described it as “a phenomenal step forward.”
In 2018, DeepMind helped Android to create Adaptive Battery, which anticipates which apps a person will use next, and Adaptive Brightness, which automatically adjusts screen brightness.
===Healthcare===
On November 13, 2018, it was announced that DeepMind Health was officially joining Google.
DeepMind partnered with to develop faster ways of identifying common eye diseases. The results showed that DeepMind’s AI system could recommend patient referrals as accurately as expert doctors for over 50 eye diseases, based on one million anonymised scans.
In 2016, DeepMind began developing an algorithm to differentiate between healthy and cancerous tissues, using 700 anonymised CT and MRI scans. In 2017, they began applying AI to breast cancer detection.
===AlphaGo===
In 2016, DeepMind built its program, which was the first to beat a professional player. Netflix went on to make a documentary about the five-game match between AlphaGo and world champion Lee SeDol. Demis Hassabis described Go as “the pinnacle of board game challenges." In 2017, DeepMind announced Alpha Go Zero, which learned the game with only the board and the rules. Within 72 hours, it beat the original program by 100 games to zero. It learned by playing millions of games against itself, using what it learned in each game to improve.
DeepMind has also produced neural networks that can beat humans at and , and AIs that can play and .
===AlphaFold===
DeepMind started work on AlphaFold in 2016. It targets the , and was widely hailed as a solution to it. The success of AlphaFold has been described as a scientific breakthrough. AlphaFold outperformed around 100 other teams in CASP, a biennial protein-structure prediction challenge. DeepMind has made AlphaFold predictions freely available to scientists.
==Ethics==
DeepMind has signed The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge against using their technologies for lethal autonomous weapons. They helped found the Partnership On AI, which brings together academics, charities, and company labs to solves challenges.
==YouTube==
The DeepMind YouTube channel mostly uploads educational lectures. The channel uploaded its first video, RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 9: Exploration and Exploitation, on May 13, 2015.
==References==
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