{"id":78565,"date":"2018-05-10T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/self-navigating-ai-learns-to-take-shortcuts-study"},"modified":"2018-05-10T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:42:27","slug":"self-navigating-ai-learns-to-take-shortcuts-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/self-navigating-ai-learns-to-take-shortcuts-study","title":{"rendered":"Self-navigating AI learns to take shortcuts: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Km3b1v_qPgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A computer programme modelled on the human brain learnt to navigate a virtual maze and take shortcuts, outperforming a flesh-and-blood expert, its developers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While artificial intelligence (AI) programmes have recently made great strides in imitating human brain processing\u2014everything from recognising objects to playing complicated board games\u2014spatial navigation has remained a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>It requires the recalculation of one\u2019s position, after each step taken, in relation to the starting point and destination\u2014even when travelling a never-before-taken route.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-05-self-navigating-ai-shortcuts.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;05-self-navigating-ai-shortcuts.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer programme modelled on the human brain learnt to navigate a virtual maze and take shortcuts, outperforming a flesh-and-blood expert, its developers said Wednesday. While artificial intelligence (AI) programmes have recently made great strides in imitating human brain processing\u2014everything from recognising objects to playing complicated board games\u2014spatial navigation has remained a challenge. It requires [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}