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Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games

Posted by samzenpus on from the king-of-combat! dept.

sciencehabit writes The dream of an artificially intelligent computer that can study a problem and gain expertise all on its own is now reality. A system debuted today by a team of Google researchers is not clever enough to perform surgery or drive a car safely, but it did master several dozen classic arcade games, including Space Invaders and Breakout. In many cases, it surpassed the best human players without ever observing how they play.

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  1. Breaking news! by penguinoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone made a computer that's really good at reaction time, and at calculating trajectories.

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  2. I'm one step ahead by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I outsourced my Donkey Kong playing before bots took it over, so there!

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  3. Re:meh by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wasn't the AI complaining about the ending of Mass Effect 3 pretty much the plot of Mass Effect 3?

  4. Don't underestimate humans by K3rn3lPan1c · · Score: 4, Funny

    Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.