The Economist -
25 Feb 2015 20:00

HOW good are computers at learning to play computer games? The chart shows the performance of a machine using artificial intelligence to play a selection of classic video games, compared with that of a professional human tester. The work--presented in Nature--is more than just a bit of fun. It demonstrates the power of modern "machine learning" techniques, which allow machines to figure things out for themselves. The computer was not given any information about the rules of the games. Instead, l...
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