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We’re back with more suggestions from our researchers for ways to expand your knowledge of AI.

Today’s #AtHomeWithAI recommendations are from research scientist Kimberly Stachenfeld (@neuro_kim) (1/7) Image
She recommends “The Scientist in the Crib” [longer listen] by @AlisonGopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, & Patricia K. Kuhl for those who are interested in what early learning tells us about the mind.

Listen along here: adbl.co/2Wwp5pE #AtHomeWithAI
Want to explore intelligence by using an approach that integrates cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science and AI?

Kimberly suggests the Brains, Minds & Machines Summer Course, offered & taught by @MBLScience and @MIT_CBMM here: bit.ly/351M6V5 #AtHomeWithAI
Interested in computational systems neuroscience? @neuro_kim recommends the lecture series from @MBLScience to learn more about circuits and system properties of the brain.

Watch them here: bit.ly/2VzCez2 #AtHomeWithAI
@neuro_kim says Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems [longer read] by Peter Dayan & L.F. Abbott is a must read for anyone looking for an introduction to the topic.

Read here: bit.ly/2xLt2yv #AtHomeWithAI
Described as “a classic for anyone who wants to understand the roots of DL”, Kimberly recommends “The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing” [longer read] by James McClelland, the late David Rumelhart, & Geoffrey Hinton.

Read it here: stanford.io/2VCHbHr #AtHomeWithAI
Have your own list of favourite resources? Let us know below! #AtHomeWithAI

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Introducing AlphaEvolve: a Gemini-powered coding agent for algorithm discovery.

It’s able to:

🔘 Design faster matrix multiplication algorithms
🔘 Find new solutions to open math problems
🔘 Make data centers, chip design and AI training more efficient across @Google. 🧵
Our system uses:
🔵 LLMs: To synthesize information about problems as well as previous attempts to solve them - and to propose new versions of algorithms
🔵 Automated evaluation: To address the broad class of problems where progress can be clearly and systematically measured.
🔵 Evolution: Iteratively improving the best algorithms found, and re-combining ideas from different solutions to find even better ones.Image
Over the past year, we’ve deployed algorithms discovered by AlphaEvolve across @Google’s computing ecosystem, including data centers, software and hardware.

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We’re helping robots self-improve with the power of LLMs. 🤖

Introducing the Summarize, Analyze, Synthesize (SAS) prompt, which analyzes how they perform tasks based on previous actions and then suggests ways for them to get better using the medium of table tennis. 🏓
Large language models like Gemini have an inherent ability to problem solve, without needing to retrain for specific jobs.

Robots can use these models to improve how they operate over time, by interacting with the world, and learning from those interactions. 🦾 goo.gle/4jVFsoE
With the SAS prompt, we can now use language models like Gemini to learn from a robot's history.

This allows the model to analyze parameter effects ⚡, and suggest ways to improve - similar to a real-life table tennis coach. 💡 goo.gle/3GvWQ54


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We built an AI model to simulate how a fruit fly walks, flies and behaves – in partnership with @HHMIJanelia. 🪰

Our computerized insect replicates realistic motion, and can even use its eyes to control its actions.

Here’s how we developed it – and what it means for science. 🧵

To create it, we turned to MuJoCo, our open-source physics simulator – created for robotics and biomechanics – and added features such as:

▪️simulating fluid forces on the flapping wings, enabling flight
▪️adhesion actuators – mimicking the gripping force of insect feet
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This enables it to learn how to move the virtual insect in the most realistic way.
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Today, we’re announcing Veo 2: our state-of-the-art video generation model which produces realistic, high-quality clips from text or image prompts. 🎥

We’re also releasing an improved version of our text-to-image model, Imagen 3 - available to use in ImageFX through @LabsDotGoogle. → goo.gle/veo-2-imagen-3

Prompt: An extreme close-up of a craftsperson's hands shaping a glowing piece of pottery on a wheel. Threads of golden, luminous energy connect the potter’s hands to the clay, swirling dynamically with their movements.
Prompt: A portrait of an Asian woman with neon green lights in the background, shallow depth of field.
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▪️ Better recreate real-world physics and realistic human expression

In head-to-head comparisons of outputs by human raters, it was preferred over other top video generation models. → goo.gle/veo-2

We’ve also enhanced Imagen 3’s ability to:
▪️ Produce diverse art styles: realism, fantasy, portraiture and more
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▪️ Generate brighter, more compositionally balanced visuals

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Today in @Nature, we’re presenting GenCast: our new AI weather model which gives us the probabilities of different weather conditions up to 15 days ahead with state-of-the-art accuracy. ☁️⚡

Here’s how the technology works. 🧵 goo.gle/49trAOvImage
Weather affects almost everything - from our daily lives 🏠 to agriculture 🚜 to producing renewable energy 🔋 and more.

Forecasting traditionally uses physics based models which can take hours on a huge supercomputer.

We want to do it in minutes - and better.
Our previous AI model was able to provide a single, best estimate of future weather.

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This research is a joint venture with @GoogleQuantumAI, published today in @Nature → goo.gle/3ZflWMnImage
The possibilities in quantum computing are compelling. ♾️

They can solve certain problems in a few hours, which would take a classical computer billions of years. This can help lead to advances in areas like drug discovery to material design.

But building a stable quantum system is a challenge.
Qubits are units of information that underpin quantum computing. These can be disrupted by microscopic defects in hardware, heat, vibration, and more.

Quantum error correction solves this by grouping multiple noisy qubits together to create redundancy, into something called a “logical qubit”. Using consistency checks, a decoder then protects the information stored in this.

In our experiments, our decoder AlphaQubit made the fewest errors.
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