A decade ago, DeepMind achieved a major AI breakthrough, enabling systems to learn retro video games like Space Invaders ...

Scientists have successfully applied reinforcement learning to a challenge in molecular biology. The team of researchers developed powerful new protein design software adapted from a strategy proven ...

As game worlds grow more vast and complex, making sure they are playable and bug-free is becoming increasingly difficult for developers. And gaming companies are looking for new tools, including ...

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has proven that complicated board and ...

A long-standing goal of artificial intelligence is an algorithm that learns, tabula rasa, superhuman proficiency in challenging domains. Recently, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world ...

Investigating whether you can beat an AI in a board game might seem like mere intellectual curiosity. However, understanding AI's weaknesses can help identify common failure patterns and devise ways ...

It was not long ago that the world watched World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lose a decisive match against a supercomputer. IBM’s Deep Blue embodied the state of the art in the late 1990s, when a ...

Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning. It enables an agent to learn through the consequences of actions in a specific environment. It can be used to teach a robot new tricks, for ...

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An AI strategy proven adept at board games like Chess and Go, reinforcement learning, has now been adapted for a powerful protein design program. The results show that reinforcement learning can do ...