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How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense
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Five years in the past, the coders at DeepMind, a London-primarily based synthetic intelligence firm, watched excitedly as an AI taught itself to play a classic arcade sport. They’d used the hot strategy of the day, deep learning, on a seemingly whimsical job: mastering Breakout,1 the Atari sport during which you bounce a ball at a wall of bricks, trying to make each one vanish. 1 Steve Jobs was working at Atari when he was commissioned to create 1976’s Breakout, a job no other engineer wanted. He roped his buddy Steve Wozniak, then at Hewlett-Packard, into helping him. Deep learning is self-training for machines