Google's AI is teaching itself how to solve a virtual maze — and it's working

The Google-owned company, which is based in King's Cross in London, published a video on YouTube showing an AI navigating a computer game with a 3D-maze that looks like a level from the 90s shooter game "Doom."

In the game, the AI is rewarded for finding apples and portals that teleport it to somewhere else in the maze. The AI has to score as many points as possible in a minute.

The authors explain that the AI successfully learned a "reasonable strategy for exploring random 3D mazes using only a visual input."

Unlike other AIs that play games independently, this particular AI had no access to the game's internal code, according to New Scientist. That means the AI had to learn the game in the same way that a human would — by looking at the screen and deciding how to move forward from there .... http://www.techinsider.io