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DeepMind’s AI agent MuZero could turbocharge YouTube – Yahoo News Australia
The successor to AlphaGo is being used to create a more efficient type of video compression.

DeepMind’s latest AI program can attain “superhuman performance” in tasks without needing to be given the rules.
Like the research hub’s earlier artificial intelligence agents, MuZero achieved mastery in dozens of old Atari video games, chess, and the Asian board games of Go and Shogi.
But unlike its predecessors, it had to work out their rules for itself.
It is already being put to practical use to find a new way to encode videos, which could slash YouTube’s costs.
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