Deepmind’s New AI Can Beat You in Any of the 57 Atari 2600 Games

Apr. 6, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that has been taking over every industry since the recent past. Fromsurveillance tasksto evenanalysing human traits, AI has shown great promises in every sector in which it has been implemented. Now, a new AI unveiled recently shows that it can beat human beings in all of the classic Atari 2600 games.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet’s London-based research subsidiary, Deepmind has created Agent57 that outperforms standard human benchmarks in all 57 Atari 2600 games. Previously, we saw the company createan AI that could render 3D models from 2D images. This time, in a recentpaper, the company stated that it has created the Agent57 which isthe first deep Reinforced Learning (RL) agent that has the capability to beat any human in Atari 2600 games, all 57 of them. Hence, the name Agent57.

Now, Deepmind, to create the Agent57, linked their previous exploration agent, “Never Give Up” (NGU) with a meta-controller. This was to achieve an exploration-exploitation balance in playing games. According to Deepmind, if an agent learns when to explore a game and when to exploit it, thenit can achieve above human-level performance in both easy and hard games.

Upon combining the meta-controller with the NGU exploration agent, the Agent57 was born that can learn a family of policies in the games and the meta-controller selects the choice of a policy. This enables the agent to beat any human in all of the 57 Atari 2600 games.

However, the London-based research company still think that Agent57 can be improved. As the AI learns more when it fails in a task, it has a lot of scope in the future.

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