Google DeepMind Makes AI Training Platform Available On GitHub
Alphabet's artificial intelligence division Google DeepMind is making the maze-like game platform it uses for many of its experiments available to other researchers and the general public.
DeepMind is putting the entire source code for its training environment -- which it previously called Labyrinth and has now renamed as DeepMind Lab -- on the open-source depository GitHub, the company said Monday. Anyone will be able to download the code and customize it to help train their own artificial intelligence systems. Putting its Lab code on GitHub will allow other researchers to see if its developers own breakthroughs can be replicated and will allow these scientists to measure the performance of their own AI agents on the exact same tests DeepMind uses.
Last month, DepMind announced a partnership with Activision Blizzard Inc. to turn the popular video game Starcraft II into a testbed for any artificial intelligence researcher who wanted to try to create an AI system that could master the complex game.
OpenAI, a rival research shop set up by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, made its own AI training platform, called OpenAI Gym, available to the public in April.