DeepMind announced the data would be made freely available to the scientific community , allowing scientists to carry out work that would have previously taken years in just a few days .
“ Our goal at DeepMind has always been to build AI and then use it as a tool to help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery itself , thereby advancing our understanding of the world around us ,” said Hassabis at the time .
“ For our team , AlphaFold ’ s success was especially rewarding , both because it was the most complex AI system we ’ d ever built , requiring multiple critical innovations , and because it has had the most meaningful downstream impact .”.
Google DeepMind In April , Hassabis announced that DeepMind , which was acquired by Google in 2014 , would henceforth be known as Google DeepMind , with the organisation joining forces with the Google Brain team to ‘ accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity ’.
“ When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010 , many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decades away from being a reality ,” Hassabis said in an announcement to DeepMind employees .
“ Now , we live in a time in which AI research and technology is advancing exponentially . In the coming years , AI – and ultimately AGI – has the potential to drive one of the greatest social , economic and scientific transformations in history .
“ Through Google DeepMind , we are bringing together our worldclass talent in AI with the computing power , infrastructure and resources to create the next generation of AI breakthroughs and products across Google and Alphabet , and to do this in a bold and responsible way . The research advances from the phenomenal Brain and DeepMind teams laid much of the foundations of the current AI industry , from Deep Reinforcement Learning to Transformers , and the work we are going to be doing now as part of this new combined unit will create the next wave of world-changing breakthroughs .” aimagazine . com 23