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Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

How Deep Learning Learned to Play Atari — From Pixels to Scores

A computer taught itself to play old Atari games just by watching the screen.
Instead of being told rules, it used deep learning to figure out what actions bring points.
The system only saw the game as images, so it worked from raw pixels, nothing else.
It tried moves, got rewards for good ones, and slowly got better by trial and error.
The surprising part was how fast it learned, sometimes it even beats humans at certain games.
No game guides, no hand-made tricks, just the machine finding patterns in what it sees.
You might think it needs tons of help, but the same setup played many different games without changing its rules, which show the idea is flexible.
This doesn't mean machines are smart like people, yet, but it does show a simple idea can make them do fun, complex tasks.
Think about a program learning from pictures alone, getting better with practice — pretty neat, and a bit spooky too.

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