Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: AI Learns Things that it Was not Trained For

Our brains are magical factories to produce emerging behaviors. When we need to learn a new task or skill, we don’t follow a strict script but we rather develop unique behaviors that are better equipped for our experiences. The development of emergent behavior is even more visible and fascinating in infants that always surprise us about the specific way they master a new task. But what about artificial intelligence(AI) systems? The traditional way to think about AI is that we train them to master a given task and we expect them to perform in a specific way. But what happens when AI starts developing new behaviors that we didn’t account for?

This week, AI powerhouse OpenAI unveiled a fascinating experiment in which they trained a group of AI agents to learn the game of hide-and-seek using traditional reinforcement learning techniques. The researchers were surprised by a group of emergent skills developed by the agents that were completely off-script. Through playing a simple game of hide and seek hundreds of millions of…