Chess. Jeopardy. Go. Why do we use games as a benchmark for A.I.?
Growing up, many of us were told that playing computer or video games was a waste of time. However, when it comes to training artificial intelligence, not only is it not a waste of time, but it could be key to developing the intelligent agents of tomorrow. Several years ago, researchers from Google DeepMind impressively demonstrated thatcutting-edge A.I.could be used to master several classic Atari games, without being explicitly taught how to play them....