Google's AI Becomes 'Highly Aggressive' In Certain Situations Thanks To A Very Human Problem

It's been reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) has learned to adopt "highly aggressive" strategies when it feels it's about to lose a simulated game. While that certainly sounds a little scary, the study this is linked to was investigating a larger social problem far more fascinating and enlightening that mere aggression. Google's in-house AI, machine learning, and neural networking development teams are working on some truly remarkable projects at present: From AlphaGo Zero, the AI that learned 3,000 years' worth of Go tactics in a matter of days, to AutoML, a system that makes self-correcting AI "children" that are designed to perform specific tasks, their output is nothing but impressive. DeepMind, one of its acquired AI R&D teams, published a paper back in 2017, along with an accompanying blog post, describing a new test they'd run on one of their neural networks. First, they copied the AI and put both versions on two different teams, Red and Blue.