The IT company DeepMind, owned by Google, emphasises the role of people in its company, as well as artificial intelligence, saying that “exciting new ideas come from dedicated collaboration between different fields”. But the algorithm behind the artificial intelligence has not been programmed to solve a specific problem, rather to teach itself how to solve it, while DeepMind’s human teams work out how to apply its algorithm to new problems such as optimising green energy or early diagnoses of breast cancer.
