Google AI company DeepMind has produced a robot capable of playing table tennis at a near-professional level. The unusual discovery was made during a recent research venture that saw the AI-driven entity successfully take on several skilled human opponents before going down to some advanced players. The DeepMind robot played competitive matches against table tennis … Read more
That reflects not Mr Altman’s leadership but a broader trend in the technology industry, one that OpenAI itself precipitated. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the market for AI labour has been transformed. Zeki Research, a market-intelligence firm, reckons that around 20,000 companies in the West are hiring AI experts. Rapid advances in … Read more
To Zhe Wang at Google DeepMind, an artificial-intelligence (AI) company, corner kicks are like games of chess. Partly because both feature opposing sides poised to react to a single imminent move. But also, no doubt, because they too may be revolutionised by AI. AI models thrive where there is abundant data. Football more than satisfies … Read more