Google DeepMind makes AI training
available to everyone
Google is to release a maze-like AI platform to the general
public
Google's artificial intelligence division, DeepMind, announced it
is releasing the entire source code for an AI training platform to the public.
The
platform was initially called Labyrinth but has now been renamed DeepMind Lab.
This platform is a maze-like game that the company uses for its AI
experiments.
DeepMind
will be releasing DeepMind Lab on the open-source site GitHub later this week.
In
the blog post announcing that the platform will be made publically available,
some of DeepMind's researchers and co-founder Shane Legg, wrote: "DeepMind
Lab has been used internally at DeepMind for some time. Our efforts so far have
only barely scratched the surface of what is possible in DeepMind Lab.
"There
are opportunities for significant contributions still to be made in a number of
mostly still untouched research domains now available through DeepMind Lab,
such as navigation, memory and exploration."
This is a further confirmation of the company's intention to
increase open-source initiatives. Last month, DeepMind announced a
partnership with Activision Blizzard, through which the game Starcraft II is to
become a testing tool for AI systems.
Others
have also made AI training platforms available to the public, including Tesla
CEO Elon Musk, entrepreneur Sam Altman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who
released an AI training platform called OpenAI Gym to the public in April.
In an interview with Bloomberg,
DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg said: "The machine learning research
community has always been very open," he said. "We publish 100
research papers a year and we have open-sourced a bunch of our agents
before."
Google DeepMind has achieved much of
its fame after its development of AI systems that play the ancient game Go and
at the Atari games at professional levels.
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