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Learning to see and act

An artificial-intelligence system uses machine learning from massive training sets to teach itself to play 49 classic computer games, demonstrating that it can adapt to a variety of tasks. See Letter p.529

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Schölkopf, B. Learning to see and act. Nature 518, 486–487 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518486a

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