{"id":73506,"date":"2017-10-26T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/deepmind-wants-to-find-the-next-miracle-material-experts-just-dont-know-how-theyll-pull-it-off"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:22:32","slug":"deepmind-wants-to-find-the-next-miracle-material-experts-just-dont-know-how-theyll-pull-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/deepmind-wants-to-find-the-next-miracle-material-experts-just-dont-know-how-theyll-pull-it-off","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind wants to find the next miracle material\u2014experts just don\u2019t know how they\u2019ll pull it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-wants-to-find-the-next-miracle-material-experts-just-dont-know-how-theyll-pull-it-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence has historically over-promised and under-delivered. That routine leads to spurts of what those in the field call \u201chype\u201d\u2014outsized excitement about the potential of a core technology\u2014followed after a few years and several million (or billion) dollars by crashing disappointment. In the end, we still don\u2019t have the flying cars or realistic robot dogs we were promised.<\/p>\n<p>But DeepMind\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v529\/n7587\/full\/nature16961.html\">AlphaGo<\/a>, a star pupil in a time we\u2019ll likely look back on as a golden age of AI research, has made a habit of <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/897498\/by-sparring-with-alphago-researchers-are-learning-how-an-algorithm-thinks\/\">blowing away experts\u2019 notions<\/a> of what\u2019s possible. When DeepMind announced that the AI system could play Go on a professional level, masters of the game said it was too complex for any machine. They were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1105509\/deepminds-new-alphago-zero-artificial-intelligence-is-ready-for-more-than-board-games\/\">AlphaGo Zero<\/a>, the AI\u2019s latest iteration, is being set to tasks outside of the 19\u00d719 Go board, according to DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1110469\/if-deepmind-is-going-to-find-the-next-miracle-material-experts-dont-know-how-theyll-pull-it-off\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1110469\/if-deepmind-is-going-to-find-the-next...ll-it-off\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has historically over-promised and under-delivered. That routine leads to spurts of what those in the field call \u201chype\u201d\u2014outsized excitement about the potential of a core technology\u2014followed after a few years and several million (or billion) dollars by crashing disappointment. In the end, we still don\u2019t have the flying cars or realistic robot dogs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}