Google's DeepMind AI Is Now Learning to Play With Physical Objects

Misha Denil and her colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley announced that they have trained an AI to learn the "physical properties" of objects by interacting with them virtually. This includes numerous aspects of the world, including questions such as "Can I sit on this?" or "Is it squishy?" In their paper, the AI systems were experimented in two environments. The first involved introducing five blocks arranged in a tower. Others were stuck together to make larger blocks, while others did not.