DeepMind's AI is an Atari gaming pro now (Wired UK)

Not just playing games

""It's the first time that anyone has built a single general learning system that can learn directly from experience," he told journalists ahead of the announcement. "The ultimate goal is to build general purpose smart machines -- that's many decades away. But this is going from pixels to actions, and it can work on a challenging task even humans find difficult. It's a baby step, but an important one.""

DeepMind's AI is an Atari gaming pro now (Wired UK)