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Being able to reason through potential future events is something humans are pretty good at doing, but that kind of ability is a real challenge when it comes to training AI. Taking those reasoning skills and using them to create a plan is even more difficult, but the Google DeepMind team has begun to tackle this problem. In a recent blog post, researchers describe new approaches they've developed for introducing "imagination-based planning" to AI. Other programs have been able to work in planning abilities, but only within limited environments. AlphaGo, for example, can do this well, as the researchers note in the blog post, however, they add that "environments like Go are'perfect' - they have clearly defined rules which allow outcomes to be predicted very accurately in almost every circumstance."