Alphabet DeepMind is inviting developers into the digital world where its AI learns to explore

Alphabet DeepMind, the company's moonshot AI factory, is announcing today (Dec. The software, available on GitHub this week, looks like a cartoonish video game--but it has been carefully built to give AI developers control over how their bots learn. It's not just fun and games--the Lab is a virtual environment that attempts to teach AI strategy, planning, time management, and motor control. Videos released by DeepMind depict a human navigating through the Lab's world as an AI would. "The only known examples of general-purpose intelligence in the natural world arose from a combination of evolution, development, and learning, grounded in physics and the sensory apparatus of animals," DeepMind researchers write in a blog post.