Google's AI got "highly aggressive" when competition got stressful in a fruit-picking game

The DeepMind researchers believe that as their studies of how AI agents compete become more complex, they could be used to better understand how humans learn to collaborate en masse. "This model also shows that some aspects of human-like behavior emerge as a product of the environment and learning," lead author Joel Weibo told Wired. "Say you want to know what the impact on traffic patterns would be if you installed a traffic light at a specific intersection. You could try out the experiment in the model first and get a reasonable idea of how an agent would adapt."