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AI cheats at video game to win

28-Feb-2018

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Researchers taught AI agents how to play old Atari video games.

Software discovered a bug that allowed it to rack up near infinite points.

Exploit not discovered by any human before.

COMMENT: how will control AIs if they decide to work around our controls?

The study was published on pre-print server arXiv.

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arXiv

Repository of electronic preprints.

Miles Brundage

Research Scientist (Policy) at OpenAI

University of Freiburg

Public Research university.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)