Google's DeepMind AI project apes human memory and programming skills

The mission of Google's DeepMind Technologies startup is to "solve intelligence." Now, researchers there have developed an artificial intelligence system that can mimic some of the brain's memory skills and even program like a human. The researchers developed a kind of neural network that can use external memory, allowing it to learn and perform tasks based on stored data. Neural networks are interconnected computational "neurons." While conventional neural networks have lacked readable and writeable memory, they have been used in machine learning and pattern-recognition applications such as computer vision and speech recognition.