An AI Taught Itself to Solve a Rubik's Cube in 20 Moves

"Our AI takes about 20 moves, most of the time solving it in the minimum number of steps," Baldi says. "Right there, you can see the strategy is different, so my best guess is that the AI's form of reasoning is completely different from a human's." The ultimate goal of projects such as this one is to build the next generation of AI systems, Baldi says. Whether they know it or not, artificial intelligence touches people every day through apps such as Siri and Alexa and recommendation engines working behind the scenes of their favorite online services. "But these systems are not really intelligent; they're brittle, and you can easily break or fool them," Baldi says.