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Google's DeepMind is Opening Up Its Flagship Platform To AI Researchers Outside the Company (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on from the everyone-welcome dept.

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers around the world will soon be able to use DeepMind's "flagship" platform to develop innovative computer systems that can learn and think for themselves. From a report on BusinessInsider: DeepMind, which was acquired by Google for $400 million in 2014, announced on Monday that it is open-sourcing its "Lab" from this week onwards so that others can try and make advances in the notoriously complex field of AI. The company says that the DeepMind Lab, which it has been using internally for some time, is a 3D game-like platform tailored for agent-based AI research. [...] The DeepMind Lab aims to combine several different AI research areas into one environment. Researchers will be able to test their AI agent's abilities on navigation, memory, and 3D vision, while determining how good they are at planning and strategy.

22 comments

  1. Paging Sid Meier et al. by sehlat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe we can finally get some really challenging AIs built for strategy games?

  2. AI doesn't exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's an algorithm, not actual AI.

    I hope someday someone sues and wins over false advertisement, and we can get people to stop calling their computer programs AI.

    1. Re:AI doesn't exist by amRadioHed · · Score: 1

      You think human intelligence isn't an algorithm?

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    2. Re:AI doesn't exist by omnichad · · Score: 1

      Ah, so it's artificial artificial intelligence... Right...I think you're getting actual intelligence (by computer) confused with AI.

    3. Re:AI doesn't exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I hope someday you figure out that what you think "intelligence" means has been wrong all this time.

    4. Re:AI doesn't exist by epine · · Score: 1

      You think human intelligence isn't an algorithm?

      This issue is surprisingly divisive, even among those you'd think would know better (feasible scenario: perhaps they do).

      Federico Faggin at UC Berkeley 2-19-2014

      Pretty good, if you like this kind of thing.

      1h12m41 he takes a question from the audience, and goes off into space (Hilbert space) on the underlying quantum mechanism of human consciousness (and mental creativity).

      "You know, I am one of those guys who do not think that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the operation of the brain. I thought like everyone else ... "

      You think human intelligence isn't an algorithm?

      Just one thing, is this unremarkable stock remark a terminating process, or have I personally fallen into an ELIZA trap?

    5. Re: AI doesn't exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why do you think you have fallen in to an ELIZA trap?

    6. Re: AI doesn't exist by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      Damn! Where's my mod points when I need them?

  3. Much ado about nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe once we're done flinging around buzzwords and marketing bullshit we can start researching AI instead of increasingly abstracted "procedural weighted probability" state machines.

  4. Works great... with small issues. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    DeepMind is an excellent platform but it's not without it's flaws. In creating a image labeling program, I noticed it did a great job identifying objects but when I tried to get it to identify various persons, it always returned with "ugly giant bag of mostly water". ;)

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    1. Re:Works great... with small issues. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And then there is the bug where it kill itself 5 minutes after watching the news

  5. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    AI ? Monkey-see / monkey-do. Yes, I say that. Non-algorithmic creative ansatz. No, Godel said that.

  6. And CPU and graphic chips by JimSadler · · Score: 1

    Imagine the circuits this powerful computer might be able to design or discover. I think we are over the toggle point now and the machine mind is about to really show us what it can do.

    1. Re:And CPU and graphic chips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      DeepMind is a great at what it does, but it's not intelligent, the way people are. It can what it's trained to do and do it faster than people but it's not going to make leaps into new ideas and concepts no one has thought of. It's no more "intelligent" than a rock.

    2. Re:And CPU and graphic chips by spikenerd · · Score: 1

      DeepMind is a great at what it does, but it's not intelligent, the way people are. It can what it's trained to do and do it faster than people but it's not going to make leaps into new ideas and concepts no one has thought of. It's no more "intelligent" than a rock.

      Rocks cannot be trained to do what people do. And, being faster than people enables it to explore candidate possibilities much faster than people could. What is your definition of intelligence that completely excludes those things?

    3. Re:And CPU and graphic chips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      An intelligence is a thing that convinces me to consider it intelligent. If it succeeds at that, then by definition I'll think it's intelligent.

      and no, beating one or a set of "tests" won't cut it---e.g. like playing chess was considered "intelligent" and a hard-problem to solve at one point... The above conservative definition of "we'll know it when we see it" seems a lot more reasonable for an amorphous area like intelligence.

    4. Re:And CPU and graphic chips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So why are you using such purely subjective definitions when talking to others? Do you expect them to understand your usage of words that mean something entirely different to them?

      Most people consider intelligence to mean "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills", and machine learning qualifies.

  7. Comments by Dan+East · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone can use Deepmind to post Slashdot comments more intelligent than the ones for this story so far?

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  8. AI Marketing Hype Turing Test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are you sick of the AI marketing buzz? So I am. So I propose a new Turing test to cull AI snake oil salesmen and marketing weasels. Any company who declares they are selling "AI" has their board of directors locked in a bear cage with a very hungry grizzly bear. Outside is a PC with their "AI" connected to a voice synthesizer. If their "AI" can save them, they pass the test. If their board of directors is turned into bear poop, they fail.

  9. race to the finish line by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As we all barrel off of the cliff trying to vie for the first general AI to replace us humans, will we be the slaves or masters?