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Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice

11 May 2018

Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars
DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

9 May 2018

Humans have neurons called “grid cells” that help us find our way as we navigate our surroundings. DeepMind's AI has developed something similar as it learned to navigate a maze

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