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DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

By Leah Crane

9 May 2018

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Our brains light up when we navigate a maze – the AI seems to work in a similar way

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Artificial intelligence is winning the rat race. Google-owned DeepMind has built an artificial intelligence that is better at navigating a maze than humans. After it was trained with data on how rodents search for food, it mimicked the processes that allow mammals to get between destinations in the most efficient way.

Humans and other mammals have neurons called 鈥済rid cells鈥 that help us find our way as we navigate our surroundings. They鈥檙e a sort of map, like a…

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