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A group of business people has a kind of gym for robots. The group is by Elon Musk, who is the boss of the electric car company Tesla Motors and the space tourism company, SpaceX. Mr Musk also the online payments website PayPal. His latest project is OpenAI Gym. It a platform for researchers and code writers to their latest work. It is an open platform, which people are free to test their ideas for artificial intelligence (A.I.) on it. In particular, researchers can test and their algorithms for A.I. Algorithms are special sets of rules in a computer program that can problems and quickly with large amounts of information.

Mr Musk about the OpenAI Gym project and why his team to put it online for free. He said: "Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to humanity as a whole, [without the] need to financial return." The OpenAI Gym the idea of giving rewards for successful learning – similar to giving a dog a treat when it something new. This is called reinforcement learning. If an algorithm well in the gym, it gets a reward. If the algorithm fails, it no reward and it has to try something different. The aim of the gym is to an algorithm that can multi-task - do many things at the same time - rather than good at doing just one thing.