Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI -- the artificial-intelligence research nonprofit cochaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman -- wants to build a robot for your home.

Google DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) technology can play soccer with an ant. The AI technology may be implemented to real products. The DeepMind AI technology is very smart, and earlier this year, DeepMind's AlphaGo system was applauded worldwide for defeating Lee Sedol, who is the strongest human Go player. Lee Sedol has won 18 world titles, but the Go player lost 4 to 1 against the Google AI. The company says the game was watched by about 200 million people.

Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI -- the artificial intelligence research nonprofit co-chaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman -- wants to build a robot for your home.

Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI - the artificial-intelligence research nonprofit cochaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman - wants to build a robot for your home. Building a robot, OpenAI's leadership explains in a blog entry on Monday, is a good way to test and refine a machine's ability to learn how to perform common tasks. By "build," the company means taking a current off-the-shelf robot and customizing it to do housework. "More generally, robotics is a good test bed for many challenges in AI," reads the blog entry.

The artificial intelligence from Google's DeepMind Technologies division is impressively versatile, there's no doubt. Late last year, it became the first neural network in history to defeat a professional player at Go, the Chinese board game whose human players had stumped computers for years, by besting world-ranked player Lee Sedol. It has demonstrated a prowess for video games, too -- it taught itself to emerge victorious in 49 different games for the Atari 2600 console and navigate digital 3D-maze called Labyrinth. And now, Google's human-like AI has learned how to play a sport of a different nature: soccer. DeepMind's latest experiment involves teaching an ant-like digital bug to maneuver a soccer ball into a goal.

Soon you could be chatting with your computer about the morning news. An AI has learned to read and answer questions about a news article with unprecedented accuracy. Creating AI systems that can learn in the background from humanity's existing stores of information is one of the big goals of computer science. "Computers don't have the kind of general knowledge and common sense of how the world works [from reading] about things in novels or watch[ing] sitcoms," says Chris Manning at Stanford University. To get a step closer to this, last year, Google's DeepMind team used articles from the Daily Mail website and CNN to help train an algorithm to read and understand a short story.

Google's DeepMind has conquered some big artificial intelligence challenges in its day, such as defeating Go's world champion and navigating mazes through virtual sight. However, one of its accomplishments is decidedly unusual: it learned how to play soccer (aka football) with a digital ant. It looks cute, but it's really a profound test of DeepMind's asynchronous, reinforcement-based learning process. The AI has to not only learn how to move the ant without any prior understanding of its mechanics, but to kick the ball into a goal. Imagine if you had to learn how to run while playing your first-ever match -- that's how complex this is.

The Debut Jobs App L'oreal, Ernst and Young, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank have all signed up to support a smartphone app called Debut, which promises to let young people fast-track the recruitment process and land roles in big companies just by playing mobile games. Users download the game, they play, and they win(or are recognized) based on characteristics that employers are looking for, which will then connect them to fast-track interviews or international internships. You can visit the game here. DeepMind's AI Labyrinth Google's AI company, DeepMind, which was founded by Demis Hassabis, created a virtual world called Labyrinth. It's part of its Apollo program and it's designed to put software into a generalized world to see what it can learn while it's there.

Google also informed that why it took initiative to have a research center in Europe because world's top technical universities reside in Europe. Google is taking this opportunity to build up their own team for the betterment of future AI creations. Google Germany, the research center for artificial intelligence in a nonprofit and base home to 450 scientists, academics and other researchers who work mostly on language technology, embedded intelligence, augmented reality, knowledge management and multimedia analysis, and data mining. Google recently bought a UK based startup named DeepMind with 500 million USD. Google later invested Oxford Universities AI research team in the startup project.

DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) division, certainly thinks there's a risk. They've teamed up with Oxford University to develop a "red button" that would interrupt an AI machine's actions. Their paper "explores a way to make sure a learning agent will not learn to prevent (or seek!) being interrupted by the environment or a human operator."