Unity and DeepMind to Advance AI Research Using Virtual Worlds

Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, said: Games and simulations have been a core part of DeepMinds research programme from the very beginning and this approach has already led to significant breakthroughs in AI research. As a former video game designer myself, I couldnt be more excited to be collaborating with Unity, creating virtual environments for developing and testing the kind of smart, flexible algorithms we need to tackle real-world problems. Unity is no stranger to forging thought-leadership in the AI field. In combination with the ML-Agents toolkit, Unity is quickly becoming the platform of choice for the development of intelligent agents. The Unity engine can create the massive simulations needed by researchers to study autonomous artificial agents and develop new kinds of algorithms, which will influence fundamental AI research in areas including robotics, autonomous vehicle development, and many other areas of science and technology.