Google DeepMind has successfully navigated a 3D maze without cheating—it didn’t have access to the digital world’s internal code. Instead, it walked around walls and into rooms by “sight,” as New ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning that addresses problems where there is no explicit training data. Q-learning is an algorithm that can be used to solve some types of RL ...

When it comes to machine learning, every performance gain is worth a bit of celebration. That's particularly true for Google's DeepMind division, which has already proven itself by beating a Go world ...