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Focusing on healthcare and ethics
DeepMind Health continued its work in 2017 partnering with the Cancer Research UK Centre at Imperial College London . This was to improve breast cancer detection by applying machine learning to mammography . The company opened a new unit called DeepMind Ethics and Society in the same year .
AI improving healthcare apps
To support doctors , DeepMind developed an app called Streams in 2018 . The app sends alerts to doctors about patients at risk of injury . Towards the end of the same year , DeepMind announced that its health division and the Streams app would be absorbed into Google Health .
Continued work with AI solutions
Deepmind published Agent57 in 2020 . Agent57 is an AI Agent which surpasses human-level performance on all 57 games of the Atari2600 suite . In partnership with The European Bioinformatics Institute ( EMBL-EBI ), DeepMind launched its AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2021 . This database more than doubled humanity ’ s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy protein structures .
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