Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It?

First time accepted submitter Hallie Siegel writes Last December, an article named 'Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning' was uploaded to arXiv by employees of a small AI company called DeepMind. Two months later Google bought DeepMind for 500 million euros, and this article is almost the only thing we know about the company. A research team from the Computational Neuroscience Group at University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science is trying to replicate DeepMind's work and describe its inner workings.

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machine learning is optimization

[globaljustin]

"machine learning" is the same as every other machine behavior: it is the product of coding instructions from humans

i don't have a problem with the language, but it's not the same as "human learning" at all

when people say a machine "learned" what they really mean is that its optimization algorithm did its programmed task effectively

"learning" = optimization over time based on parameters set by humans