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Google's DeepMind AI can now play table tennis to a competitive level
The AI Olympics await
Before artificial intelligence takes over the world, it seems it'll beat us at table tennis first: Google has reported on a robot making use of its DeepMind AI that is now able to play ping-pong to an "amateur human level" of performance. Watch On Table tennis was chosen as a project by the DeepMind team because of the many different elements involved, from the complex motion physics to the hand-eye coordination that's required to keep hitting the ball back successfully. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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