For our first ever 'Five minutes with' we caught up with Kevin Millikin, a software engineer on the DevTools team. He’s in Salt Lake City this week to present at PyCon US, the largest annual gathering for those using and developing the open-source Python programming language. At DeepMind... I build bespoke software tools for our…

One key aspect of intelligence is the ability to quickly learn how to perform a new task when given a brief instruction. For instance, a child may recognise real animals at the zoo after seeing a few pictures of the animals in a book, despite differences between the two. But for a typical visual model…

Many recent successes in language models (LMs) have been achieved within a ‘static paradigm’, where the focus is on improving performance on the benchmarks that are created without considering the temporal aspect of data. For instance, answering questions on events that the model could learn about during training, or evaluating on text sub-sampled from the…

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To train agents to interact well with humans, we need to be able to measure progress. But human interaction is complex and measuring progress is difficult. In this work we developed a method, called the Standardised Test Suite (STS), for evaluating agents in temporally extended, multi-modal interactions. We examined interactions that consist of human participants…

Research scientist, Kevin McKee, tells how his early love of science fiction and social psychology inspired his career, and how he’s helping advance research in ‘queer fairness’, support human-AI collaboration, and study the effects of AI on the LGBTQ+ community. How did you first get interested in AI? The signs were clear, right from the…

For today's "Five minutes with" we caught up with Gemma Jennings, a product manager on the Applied team, who led a session on vision language models at the AI Summit - one of the world’s largest AI events for business. At DeepMind... I’m a part of the Applied team, which helps bring DeepMind technology to…

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