Thread by @NewOrleansVC

Day 5: Google's @DeepMind.

🧠 While @OpenAI grabs headlines, we wanted to dig into @DeepMind, one of the OG AI research institutions acquired for ~$500M by @Google (a steal!). Its breakthroughs have made a huge impact on the AI field. Let's take a look! 🚀 #AllInAI (1/9)

🎮 @DeepMind's AlphaGo made history in 2016 by defeating Lee Sedol in Go. Combining deep learning & reinforcement learning with Monte Carlo Tree Search, AlphaGo soon learned to play complex games entirely through self-play, without human guidance. (2/9)

🎼 WaveNet, another @DeepMind invention, uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate realistic human-like speech. It powers text-to-speech applications like @Google Assistant and has pushed the boundaries of speech synthesis, music generation, and voice cloning. (3/9)

🧬 @DeepMind's AlphaFold is a game-changer in biology and medicine, accurately predicting protein structures. This breakthrough has the potential to unlock new insights into diseases and drug development...this was one of their impressive talks at @NeurIPSConf '22 in NOLA (4/9)

📚 @DeepMind has also contributed significantly to Transformer-based architectures, the backbone of modern LLMs. These architectures are critical to the success of models like OpenAI's GPT-3/4 and @Google's BERT, revolutionizing natural language processing as we know it. (5/9)

🌍 @DeepMind's research team has a strong focus on solving real-world problems. They've developed AI systems like DeepMind for Google data centers to reduce energy consumption by up to 40% for cooling and improve overall energy efficiency by 15%. Great real world use case. (6/9)

🤖 @DeepMind does seem to prioritize AI safety research more than others. They've developed techniques like "Reward Modeling" and "AI-Driven Debate" to help align AI behavior with human values, encouragoing collaboration between AI agents. Both are prob worth looking into. (7/9)

💤 We beleive @DeepMind is currently a sleeping giant in the AI world that sits on a goldmine of research, data, and compute infrastructure. While it feels like it's behind others who are shipping so quickly, it has all the ingredients to be a formidable player. (8/9)

🔭 With @DeepMind's track record of groundbreaking research and @Google's vast resources and audience, I'm looking forward to seeing what amazing commercial products are released by both. 👀 #AllInAI (9/9)