DeepMind finds way to overcome AI’s forgetfulness problem

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DeepMind, the London-based ­artificial intelligence company owned by Alphabet Inc, claims it overcame a key limitation affecting one of the most promising machine learning technologies: the software’s inability to remember.

The breakthrough, described in a paper published in the academic journal Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, may open the way for artificial intelligence ­systems to be more easily applied to multiple tasks, instead of being narrowly trained for one purpose. It should also improve the ability of AI systems to transfer ­knowledge between tasks and to master a sequence of linked steps.