DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence unit of Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. has been running a series of simulations aimed at answering a key AI question once and for all: will the robots play nice, or will they try and kill us all? ..

In the first game, the two agents must compete to gather as many apples as possible, .. However, there is a twist: both players are armed with a ray gun and can stun the other player at any time, immobilizing them for a brief period, allowing the aggressor to gather more resources unimpeded..

The DeepMind team found that the greater the level of intelligence applied (or larger the neural network supporting the software agent), the more aggressive the software agents became..

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