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

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.

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Paging Sid Meier et al.

[sehlat]

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

Works great... with small issues.

[Gravis Zero]

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". ;)

And CPU and graphic chips

[JimSadler]

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.

Re:And CPU and graphic chips

[spikenerd]

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?

Re:AI doesn't exist

[amRadioHed]

You think human intelligence isn't an algorithm?

Re:AI doesn't exist

[omnichad]

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

Re:AI doesn't exist

[epine]

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?

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[Dan East]

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

Re: AI doesn't exist

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re: AI doesn't exist

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

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