https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/mar/14/googles-deepmind-makes-ai-program-that-can-learn-like-a-human
“Researchers have overcome one of the major stumbling blocks in artificial intelligence with a program that can learn one task after another using skills it acquires on the way.
Developed by
Google’s AI company, DeepMind, the program has taken on a range of different
tasks and performed almost as well as a human. Crucially, and uniquely, the AI
does not forget how it solved past problems, and uses the knowledge to tackle
new ones.
The AI is not capable of the general intelligence that humans draw on when they are faced with new challenges; its use of past lessons is more limited. But the work shows a way around a problem that had to be solved if researchers are ever to build so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) machines that match human intelligence.”
Related:
Quantum Computing Breakthrough
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609581/a-quantum-boost-for-a-different-kind-of-computer/
The AI is not capable of the general intelligence that humans draw on when they are faced with new challenges; its use of past lessons is more limited. But the work shows a way around a problem that had to be solved if researchers are ever to build so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) machines that match human intelligence.”
Related:
Quantum Computing Breakthrough
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609581/a-quantum-boost-for-a-different-kind-of-computer/