Google's DeepMind wants to cut 10% off the entire UK's energy bill

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Anticipating energy demand can be a tricky business, but Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) could help. The company is currently in talks with the National Grid to see if they can make the UK energy supply more efficient by predicting energy demand and supply. Business Insider has more:

"We're early stages talking to National Grid and other big providers about how we could look at the sorts of problems they have," Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's cofounder and CEO, told the FT. "It would be amazing if you could save 10% of the country's energy usage without any new infrastructure, just from optimisation. That's pretty exciting."

The talks between DeepMind and the National Grid were briefly hinted at by Mustafa Suleyman, one of the other DeepMind cofounders, last November. But the FT report reveals that DeepMind specifically wants to help the National Grid to utilise renewable energy sources in the most efficient way possible.

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