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Google’s DeepMind ‘Robot Constitution’ will make sure its AI droids won’t kill you

Google’s DeepMind ‘Robot Constitution’ will make sure its AI droids won’t kill you

The DeepMind robotics team has revealed three new advances that it says will help robots make faster, better, and safer decisions in the wild. One includes a system for gathering training data with a “Robot Constitution” to make sure your robot office assistant can fetch you more printer paper — but without mowing down a human co-worker who happens to be in the way. Google’s data gathering system, AutoRT, can use a visual language model (VLM) and large language model (LLM) working… Source link

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Alums From Google’s DeepMind Bring AI Energy Controls to Industries | Data Center Knowledge

Alums From Google’s DeepMind Bring AI Energy Controls to Industries | Data Center Knowledge

(Bloomberg) — Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence. Phaidra, a company based in Seattle, sells AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial giants. It’s relying on the same fix as their former company, DeepMind, Google’s research lab. For several years, DeepMind has let its AI… Source link

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Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal – TechCrunch

Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal – TechCrunch

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the UK in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in London — without the patients’ knowledge or consent. The Trust was later sanctioned by the UK’s data protection watchdog which found, in mid 2017, that it had breached uk data protection law… Source link

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DeepMind co-founder quits Google A.I. role to be VC

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman surprised many of his followers last week when he announced he’s leaving his vice president role at Google to become a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley firm Greylock Partners, which has backed the likes of Facebook, Airbnb and LinkedIn since it was founded in 1965. His exit from Google, which acquired the DeepMind artificial intelligence lab in 2014, comes after he was accused of… Source link

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DeepMind co-founder leaves Google after a rocky tenure.

Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, is leaving Google to join the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. The departure of Mr. Suleyman, who was Google’s vice president of product management and policy for artificial intelligence, closes a tumultuous tenure at the company. He joined Google in 2014 when the search giant acquired DeepMind, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence research lab, in a deal valued at $650 million. The deal demonstrated the value of… Source link

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Google, DeepMind face lawsuit over data deal with Britain’s NHS

Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind. Jeon Heon-Kyun | Getty Images LONDON — Alphabet’s Google and sister firm DeepMind are facing legal action for the way in which they obtained and processed over a million patient health records without consent in the U.K.  British law firm Mishcon de Reya told CNBC Friday it had filed a claim with the High Court on behalf of Andrew Prismall and roughly 1.6 million other individuals whose medical records were… Source link

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