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Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics

John McCormac 23 Jun 2016

John McCormac discusses his takeaways from the RSS 2016 Workshop ‘Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics' and highlights interesting themes and topics from the d...

Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games

Frank Tobe 17 Mar 2016

Embed from Getty Images Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...

Google DeepMind challenge match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo

Robohub Editors 14 Mar 2016

Update: The final match was played on Tuesday, 15 March, with AlphaGo winning over Lee Sedol 4-1! Watch all the livestream matches below....

Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches

Talking Machines 14 Mar 2016

In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...

To err is human: raising the bar on AI

Michael Szollosy 01 Feb 2016

Last week, media outlets reported about the latest 'sure sign' of an imminent robopocalypse. Google-backed DeepMind created an AI sophisticated enough to beat a human champion in the Chinese ...