DeepMind’s MuZero picks up the rules of games as it plays
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach itself...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
In a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, DeepMind researchers describe a reinforcement learning algorithm-generating technique that discovers what to predict and how...
Researchers combine reinforcement learning and NLP to escape a Grue monster
AI researchers from Georgia Tech and Microsoft Research created AI that combines reinforcement learning and natural language processing (NLP) to outperform state-of-the-art question-answering AI...
DeepMind hopes to teach AI to cooperate by playing Diplomacy
DeepMind, the Alphabet-backed machine learning lab that’s tackled chess, Go, Starcraft 2, Montezuma’s Revenge, and beyond, believes the board game Diplomacy could motivate a...
DeepMind’s Agent57 beats humans at 57 classic Atari games
In a preprint paper published this week by DeepMind, Google parent company Alphabet’s U.K.-based research division, a team of scientists describe Agent57, which they...
DeepMind technique encourages AI players to cooperate in zero-sum games
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could...
Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...
DeepMind’s MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach...
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning simulator
About a dozen members of the Google Brain team today open-sourced Google Research Football Environment, a 3D reinforcement learning simulator for training AI to...