Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: Solving the Rubik’s Cube Like a Human Would

Building artificial intelligence(AI) systems that develop knowledge and reason through tasks in the same way humans do its one of the pivotal challenges of the next decade of AI. While many AI systems have shown impressive results across diverse cognitive tasks, their way of developing knowledge still remains fairly mechanic. Solving the Rubik’s cube is one of those tasks that have been solved many times by AI but in ways that don’t come even closer to human cognitive processes.

This week, AI powerhouse OpenAI astonished the world by unveiling a prototype of a robotic arm that could solve a Rubik’s cube with one robotic hand. The technique used a combination of reinforcement learning and a new technique that introduced constant challenges into the learning process to maximize the learning abilities of the algorithm. OpenAI also leveraged a robotic arm that showed impressive levels of dexterity and abilities to react to unforeseen environmental challenges. While the OpenAI demonstration was constrained to the Rubik’s…