AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

StarCraft, considered to be one of the most challenging Real-Time Strategy games and one of the longest-played esports of all time, has emerged by consensus as a “grand challenge” for AI research. Here, we introduce our StarCraft II program AlphaStar, the first Artificial Intelligence to defeat a top professional player.

This blog introduces a new long-range memory model, the Compressive Transformer, alongside a new benchmark for book-level language modelling, PG19. We provide the conceptual tools needed to understand…

Sports analytics is in the midst of a remarkably important era, offering interesting opportunities for AI researchers and sports leaders alike.

Today, in partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the…

«The AlphaFold DB serves as a ‘google search’ for protein structures, providing researchers with instant access to predicted models of the proteins they're studying, enabling them to focus their effort and expedite experimental work.»

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) have seized Tech mindshare in a way few topics have in recent memory.

What nonhuman animals experience while sleeping can be called dreaming, philosopher David Peña-Guzmán writes in a new book. This impacts how we should think about their interior lives.

A gardener’s best friend? Think again. How invasive earthworms are wreaking havoc on our ecosystems

How is it possible to go forward with large language models with the knowledge of just how biased, how incomplete, and how harmful — to both people and the planet — these models truly are?

Shouldn’t we respect our animal elders, too?