Too clever for its own good! Google DeepMind researcher reveals how AI cheats at games

A Google researcher has highlighted some of the hilarious ways that artificial intelligence (AI) software has'cheated' to fulfil its purpose. A programme designed not to lose at Tetris completed its task by simply pausing the game, while a self-driving car simulator asked to keep cars'fast and safe' did so by making them spin on the spot. An AI programmed to spot cancerous skin lesions learned to flag blemishes pictured next to a ruler, as they indicated humans were already concerned about them. Victoria Krakovna, of Google's DeepMind AI lab, asked her colleagues for examples of misbehaving AI to highlight an often overlooked danger of the technology. She said that the biggest threat posed by AI was not that they disobeyed us, but that they obeyed us in the wrong way.