DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

Artificial intelligence has learned to play soccer. By learning from decades worth of computer simulations, an AI took digital humanoids from flailing tots to proficient players. Researchers at the AI research company DeepMind taught the AI how to play soccer in a computer simulation through an athletic curriculum resembling a sped-up version of growing a human baby into a football player. The AI was given control over digital humanoids with realistic body mass and joint movements. "We don't put infants in a 11 versus 11 match," says Guy Lever at DeepMind.