Watch as Google's Adorable DeepMind AI Teaches Itself How to Do Parkour

The team at Alphabet have used a reinforced learning program to teach the DeepMind AI how to do parkour. Reinforced learning (RL) is a common tool for teaching and guiding behavior by using a reward system. Basically good or desirable behavior gets rewards and undesirable behavior gets nothing. The aim of the project was to investigate if simple rewards systems would also work in complex environments. A virtual parkour course was designed with steps, ledges, hurdles, and drops.