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Researchers had the agents -- as the virtual robots are called -- act like true student and teacher pairs: student agents struggled to learn Pac-Man and a version of the StarCraft video game. The researchers were able to show that the student agent learned the games and, in fact, surpassed the teacher.

That's a little bit cool and a little bit frightening.

Computers teaching each other? That's one step closer to consciousness.

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