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Google's DeepMind AI just taught itself to walk (youtube.com)
27 points by Huhty on July 13, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Clearly needs some energy constraint factored in to look less like monty python :) I also wonder if the gravity is realistic.

A similar video from 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw Looks much smoother, because of muscle and nerve simulations. At 0:55 you can see the generations learning how to walk.


If anyone is interested in learning more how reinforcement learning works, I would highly recommend openai gym [0]. It provides a controlled environment where you can develop learning algorithms to accomplish an objective goal. It also has a walkers similar to the one in the video [1]. For learning more about reinforcement learning, I would recommend Richard S. Sutton book Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. He has a new draft available free online [2]. Or the course Practical RL [3].

[0] https://gym.openai.com/envs

[1] https://gym.openai.com/envs#mujoco

[2] http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~straka/courses/npfl114/2016/sutton-...

[3] https://github.com/yandexdataschool/Practical_RL


We are pretty good at walking and moving fast forward..

I wonder how fast a AI could get at climbing- walking alterations, when given a challenging terrain..


one more sensationalist headline for deepmind

https://www.google.es/search?q=mujoco+learning+to+walk#q=muj...


Thank you for the vid




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