DeepMind's AI is teaching itself parkour, and the results are adorable

Keeping up with the latest AI research can be an odd experience. On the one hand, you're aware that you're looking at cutting-edge experimentation, with new papers outlining the ideas and methods that will probably (eventually) snowball into the biggest technological revolution of all time. On the other hand, sometimes what you're looking at is just unavoidably weird and funny. Case in point is a new paper from Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind titled "Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments." The research explores how reinforcement learning (or RL) can be used to teach a computer to navigate unfamiliar and complex environments.