How MuZero, AlphaZero, and AlphaDev are helping optimise the entire computing ecosystem that powers our world of devices
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are becoming more sophisticated every day, each designed to solve a problem in the best way. As part of our efforts to build increasingly capable and general AI systems, we’re working to create AI tools with a broad understanding of the world, so useful knowledge can be transferred between many different types of tasks.
Based on reinforcement learning, our AI models AlphaZero and MuZero have achieved superhuman performance winning games. Now, they’re expanding their capabilities to help optimise data centres and video compression – and most recently, our specialised version of AlphaZero, called AlphaDev, discovered new algorithms that are already accelerating the software at the foundations of our digital society.
While these tools are creating leaps in efficiency across the computing ecosystem, early results show the transformative potential of more general-purpose AI tools. Here we explain how these advances are shaping the future of computing and already helping billions of people and the planet.