... learning the fundamentals of soccer could one day help robots to move around our world in more natural, more human ways.
“In order to ‘solve’ soccer, you have to actually solve lots of open problems on the path to artificial general intelligence [AGI],” says Guy Lever, a research scientist at DeepMind. “There’s controlling the full humanoid body, coordination—which is really tough for AGI—and actually mastering both low-level motor control and things like long-term planning.” ...
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