Google’s London-based sister company, DeepMind, recently developed a training method for teaching AI how to play video games. Rather than painstakingly feed it data, they just leave it alone with some YouTube videos. DeepMind’s latest training method is designed to solve a problem AI faces in exploration. AI pretty much sucks at exploring new places or figuring out which way to go. And AI developers struggle to find ways to reward AI in environments where there’s little to achieve. DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI, for example, was designed to win at Go — a game with very specific rules. But when you…
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