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📝 Editorial: DeepMind and OpenAI Magical Week in AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing at an astonishing rate, with new milestones being reached on a regular basis. Despite being accustomed to regular breakthroughs, from time to time we get to see AI research that challenges the boundaries of human comprehension. Just think about such releases as AlphaGo, GPT-3, AlphaFold, and several other models that account for some of the most important milestones in the last decades of AI. This week surprised us with two groundbreaking releases from DeepMind and OpenAI.

Earlier in the week, DeepMind announced its work on AlphaCode, a new transformer model that can generate high-quality programming code. AlphaCode follows OpenAI’s work on…