AI trained to navigate develops brain-like location tracking

DeepMind is an artificial intelligence research company that specializes in deep learning. That's an approach, inspired by neural networks, that passes an input through multiple, sequential layers of analysis (the "deep") to come up with an output. The method seems to be working pretty well for the company; it's the one that made AlphaGo, which it claims is "arguably the strongest Go player in history." Now that DeepMind has solved Go, the company is applying DeepMind to navigation. Navigation relies on knowing where you are in space relative to your surroundings and continually updating that knowledge as you move.