Google's AI can learn to play video games | The Verge

Google's AI can learn to play video games | The Verge

February 25, 2015 It's machines all the way down Google's DeepMind AI can beat 49 Atari video games. That may not sound like much, but it taught itself to play — a significant step for machine learning. Google acquired DeepMind Technologies last year, beating out Facebook on the bid . At the time, there was speculation about whether the acquisition would matter for search or robotics . The answer may be both: the machine learning techniques that led to today's study — published in the journal Nature — let computers discover patterns in data. And while the methods used to help the computers learn to play video games have been around for "several decades," according to an accompanying editorial, they hadn't been combined in such a useful way before. "The approach displays impressive adaptability." "The approach displays impressive adaptability," writes Bernhard Schölkopf, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Although each system only got trained on one game,

Read full article from Google's AI can learn to play video games | The Verge