DeepMind and OpenAI took advantage of this to train a recurrent neural network to generate reinforcement-learning algorithms, which tell an AI how to behave to achieve given goals.

Datasets in AI and machine learning contain many flaws. Some might be fixable, according to experts -- given enough time and resources.

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