Professor Murray Shanahan appears on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme to discuss Google's decision to buy "Deep Mind" and its implications for AI.
British Neuroscientist Demis Hassabis set up "DeepMind Technologies" just two years ago with the aim of trying to help computers think like humans.
His company has yet to produce anything commercially but Google has still paid £242million for its expertise in the pioneering field of artificial intelligence. It represents Google’s biggest ever single acquisition in Europe.
DeepMind uses machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms to predict the way people think and subsequently teach computers to think for themselves. Potentially these algorithms could be the next big breakthrough in technology.
Murray Shanahan a Professor of Cognitive Robotics here in the Department of Computing and Dr Stuart Armstrong, from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford both featured on a debate on Radio 4's Today programme about Google’s aquisition of "Deep Mind" and what it tells us about how far artificial intelligence has progressed.
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