Last Week in AI #139: DeepMind acquires MuJoCo physics simulator and releases it for free, UK schools warned over facial recognition, Google lawyers slow down internal AI research

DeepMind acquired and made MuJoCo free w/ plans to open source, UK government warns schools to avoid facial-recognition payment systems, Google lawyers reportedly slow down research, and more!

Oct 25, 2021

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Opening up a physics simulator for robotics

Last week, Google-backed AI research lab Deepmind announced that it has acquired the physics simulator MuJoCo (which stands for MuJoCo, which stands for Multi-Joint Dynamics with Contact). This simulator has long been relied upon by many robotics researchers to develop and test deep reinforcement learni…

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