Dip into DeepMind's 3D playground where AI comes to learn

DeepMind is inviting you down the rabbit hole and into its 3D digital world. Its hope is to encourage artificial intelligence to grow and thrive in an environment that's nearly as rich as the one human intelligence evolved in. DeepMind is an AI moonshot project under the Alphabet umbrella, formed from a London-based startup that Google bought in 2014. Remember when AI beat a human champ at the complex strategy game of Go earlier this year? The company now is giving outside software developers access to DeepMind Lab, a virtual space where AI agents learn to navigate the world, according to a blog post published Saturday.