Now Google's AI can navigate labyrinths faster than humans

Google taught its DeepMind AI to remember things like a human would. Most AIs can specialize in one area, like defeating the world's best Go players; but DeepMind was programmed to apply previous knowledge and skills to learning new tasks, drawing from a neural network of programmed skills and "memories". Now, DeepMind is teaching itself how to organize its own "brain" network. And Google researchers were shocked when, without any input from them, the AI chose to make part of its brain look nearly identical to humans. Google's DeepMind team, in collaboration with University College London (UCL) researchers, stuck the AI in a virtual reality maze to teach it spatial awareness and memorization of patterns, publishing their findings in Nature.