The UK is a middle of extraordinary technological innovation with unimaginable expertise and world-class establishments. Later this yr, Google will construct on this heritage by establishing our landmark King’s Cross constructing in London alongside a historic European railway hub.
In the present day, we’re unveiling the constructing’s title, Platform 37, and plans for The AI Trade, a brand new public house devoted to deepening understanding of synthetic intelligence.
Platform 37: A hub for AI innovation
The title is a nod to the constructing’s location subsequent to King’s Cross station and to “Transfer 37,” a pivotal play made by DeepMind’s AI system AlphaGo in a now-legendary 2016 match towards Go world champion Lee Sae Dol. Go is extremely advanced, with extra doable board configurations than the variety of atoms within the identified universe, and has lengthy been a proving floor for AI analysis. “Transfer 37” was so unconventional that human specialists initially thought it was a mistake. However as the sport unfolded, it turned clear it enabled AlphaGo to win the sport.
AlphaGo’s victory heralded the start of what’s now acknowledged as the trendy period in AI, and catalyzed our work utilizing AI to deal with scientific issues. Since that breakthrough, our AI programs have helped speed up advances in fields like materials discovery, fusion energy research, mathematical reasoning and biology.
This summer season, Google DeepMind and Google groups will start to maneuver into Platform 37. Collectively our world-leading AI researchers, engineers, ethicists and others will construct on our observe document of secure and accountable AI improvement.
