Google's DeepMind made an AI that can imagine the future

Google's London-based AI outfit DeepMind has created two different types of AI that can use their'imagination' to plan ahead and perform tasks with a higher success rate than AIs without imagination. Sorry if I made you click because you wanted AIs predicted flying cars. I promise this is cool too. In a post on their site, DeepMind researchers give a short review of "a new family of approaches for imagination-based planning." The so-called Imagination-Augmented Agents, or I2As, use an internal'imagination encoder' that helps the AI decide what are and what aren't useful predictions about its environment.