Towards Artificial General Intelligence

January 23, 2018
Jeff Running, Microsoft

Microsoft Research Montreal has developed a suite of tasks that teach artificial agents how to seek information actively, by asking questions. We’ve also designed a deep neural agent that learns to accomplish these tasks through efficient information-seeking behaviour. Such behaviour is a vital research step towards Artificial General Intelligence.

- Jeff Running
Research Area
- Artificial intelligence
Research Lab
- Microsoft Research Lab – Montréal
- Laboratoire de recherche Microsoft - Montréal

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