Google Creates New, Smarter AI

This is a problem for scientists working toward the creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems capable of performing complex tasks with minimal human supervision. In a step toward overcoming this hurdle, researchers at Google's DeepMind -- the company that developed the Go-playing computer program AlphaGo -- announced earlier this week the creation of a neural network that can not only learn, but can also use data stored in its memory to "logically reason" and make inferences to answer questions. In order to achieve this, the researchers first trained the neural network using randomly generated map-like structures -- a process that allowed the DNC to learn how to store connections between various parts in its external memory.