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DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

31 August 2022

An artificial intelligence learned to skilfully control digital humanoid soccer players by working through decades' worth of soccer matches in just a few weeks
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Early mammals lived faster and died younger than modern ones

31 August 2022

The extinction of the dinosaurs left an ecological hole that was quickly filled by mammals, which rapidly developed larger bodies. Now it seems this evolutionary growth spurt was a result of living life in fast forward

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