An AI agent with human-like language acquisition in a virtual environment - Baidu Research

Despite tremendous progress, artificial intelligence is still limited in many ways. For example, in computer games, if an AI agent is not pre-programmed with game rules, it must try millions of times before figuring out the right moves to win. Humans can accomplish the same feat in a much shorter time, because we are good at transferring past knowledge to new tasks by using language. In a game in which you must kill a dragon to win, an AI agent would need to try many other actions (firing at wall, a patch of flowers, etc) before understanding that it must kill the dragon. However, if the AI agent understood language, a human could simply use language to instruct it to: "kill the dragon to win the game."