Google's New AI Becomes 'Highly Aggressive' To Get What It Wants

Without using the laser beams, they would end up with equal numbers of apples, so the aggression was rewarded. And the more sophisticated the neural network, the more aggressive the agents became. "This model ... shows that some aspects of human-like behaviour emerge as a product of the environment and learning," Joel Z Leibo, one of the researchers, told Wired. "Less aggressive policies emerge from learning in relatively abundant environments with less possibility for costly action. The greed motivation reflects the temptation to take out a rival and collect all the apples oneself."