{"id":247,"date":"2018-05-15T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/?p=247"},"modified":"2018-05-15T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:06:44","slug":"deepmind-ai-spontaneously-developed-digital-navigation-neurons-like-a-mamma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/deepmind-ai-spontaneously-developed-digital-navigation-neurons-like-a-mamma\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind AI Spontaneously developed digital navigation \u2018Neurons\u2019 like a mamma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"at-above-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/14\/this-deepmind-ai-spontaneously-developed-navigation-neurons-like-ours\/\" data-title=\"This DeepMind AI Spontaneously Developed Digital Navigation 'Neurons' Like Ours\" data-description=\"When Google DeepMind researchers trained a neural network to tackle a virtual maze, it spontaneously developed digital equivalents to the specialized neurons that mammals use to navigate. Not only did the AI system have superhuman navigation capabilities, but the research could shine a light on how our brains work.\">\n<div id=\"atrsb\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-66d79862-c941-4f3f-904e-a47cceff1efd\">\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Google DeepMind researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the complex neural codes that the brain uses to navigate through space.\u00a0The program surprised the scientists by spontaneously generating hexagonal-shaped patterns of activity akin to those generated by navigational cells in the mammalian brain called grid cells. Grid cells have been\u00a0shown in experiments with real rats\u00a0to be fundamental to how an animal tracks its own position in space.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\">\nRead full article <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/14\/this-deepmind-ai-spontaneously-developed-navigation-neurons-like-ours\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=75a360e1b9-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-75a360e1b9-58211597#sm.00000s6d61m1vyemlt80uix1fkw19\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the complex neural codes that the brain uses to navigate through space.\u00a0The program surprised the scientists by spontaneously generating hexagonal-shaped patterns of activity akin to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[4,34,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopixels.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}