{"id":218508,"date":"2017-07-06T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T09:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218508"},"modified":"2017-07-06T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T09:39:58","slug":"google-opens-deepmind-ai-research-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/218508-google-opens-deepmind-ai-research-lab.html","title":{"rendered":"Google opens new DeepMind AI research lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind\u2019s first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.com\/blog\/deepmind-office-canada-edmonton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>international AI research office<\/strong><\/a> has opened in Edmonton, Canada, in collaboration with the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in London in 2012, DeepMind uses learning algorithms for applications such as simulations, eCommerce, and games.<\/p>\n<p>Google acquired DeepMind in January 2014 from its founders Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it was a big decision for it to open its first non-UK research lab, but was made easier thanks to the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The company has sponsored the university\u2019s machine learning lab to provide additional funding for PhDs.<\/p>\n<p>DeepMind Alberta will be led by Rich Sutton, Michael Bowling, and Patrick Pilarski.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206480-its-alphago-vs-the-world-champ.html\">It\u2019s AlphaGo vs the world champ<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind\u2019s first international AI research office was opened in Canada in collaboration with the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":218510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42494,167],"class_list":["post-218508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-deepmind","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218594,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508\/revisions\/218594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}