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| 2016 || July || {{w|AI}} development || DeepMind announces the ability to cut Google's data centers' energy consumption by 15%, using a {{w|machine learning}} algorithm.<ref>{{cite web |last1=BURGESS |first1=MATT |title=Google's DeepMind trains AI to cut its energy bills by 40% |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-deepmind-data-centres-efficiency |website=wired.co.uk |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wakefield |first1=Jane |title=Google uses AI to save on electricity from data centres |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36845978 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || August 30 || Partnership || DeepMind announces a partnership with {{w|University College London Hospital}} to explore using artificial intelligence to treat patients with head and neck cancers. The goal is to develop tools to automatically identify cancerous cells for {{w|radiology}} machines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Google is teaming up with a London hospital to inject AI into cancer treatment |url=https://qz.com/769974/google-deepmind-cancer-artificial-intelligence-deep-learning-university-college-london-hospital/ |website=qz.com |accessdate=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google DeepMind targets NHS head and neck cancer treatment |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37230806 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google DeepMind and UCLH collaborate on AI-based radiotherapy treatment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/30/google-deepmind-ucl-ai-radiotherapy-treatment- |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google DeepMind wants to use machine learning to help treat certain cancers |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/30/12714428/google-deepmind-cancer-treatment-plans-uk-health |website=theverge.com |accessdate=30 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || September 9 || {{w|AI}} development || DeepMind claims having significantly improved computer-generated speech with its new system called WaveNet, an AI technology making machines sound more like humans. The system generates voices by sampling real human speech and directly modeling audio waveforms based on it, as well as its previously generated audio.<ref>{{cite web |title=Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence has figured out how to talk |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-wavenet-speech-2016-9 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gallego |first1=Jelor |title=At Last, Google’s DeepMind AI Can Make Machines Sound Like Humans |url=https://futurism.com/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans |website=futurism.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Robertson |first1=Adi |title=Google’s DeepMind AI fakes some of the most realistic human voices yet |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12860866/google-deepmind-wavenet-ai-text-to-speech-synthesis |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Krumins |first1=Aaron |title=Robots receive a scary-accurate new voice, courtesy of Google’s DeepMind |url=https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/235428-robots-receive-a-scary-new-voice-courtesy-of-googles-deepmind |website=extremetech.com |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref>
