DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems

Google’s AI R&D lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with “machine-gradable” solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train its AI models, DeepMind said. The company says it’s building a user interface for interacting with AlphaEvolve, and plans to launch an early access program for selected academics ahead of a possible broader rollout. Most AI models hallucinate. Owing to their probabilistic architectures, they confidently make things up sometimes. In fact, newer AI models like OpenAI’s o3 hallucinate more than their predecessors, illustrating the challenging nature of the issue. AlphaEvolve introduces a clever mechanism to cut down on hallucinations: an automatic evaluation system. The system uses models to generate, critique, and arrive at a pool of possible answers to a question, and automatically evaluates and scores the answers for accuracy. DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve ... Read full article.