AI Acquires Spatial Reasoning Abilities, in a Victory for Our Machine Overlords - ExtremeTech

The focus of the DeepMind paper concerns spatial reasoning, in particular the ability to grasp the relation of objects to each other. This may sound simple compared with becoming an expert in chess or the like. But it's only because humans possess something like an "intuitive physics engine," an algorithm for extrapolating three-dimensionality from flat images and comparing objects within it to other objects. This kind of spatial reasoning has proved difficult for computers, at least until now. Using a combination of relational networks and convoluted neural networks, the DeepMind system can answer questions concerning the relation of objects within an image.