DeepMind's Agent57 AI agent can best human players across a suite of 57 Atari games – TechCrunch

Development of artificial intelligence agents tends to frequently be measured by their performance in games, but there's a good reason for that: Games tend to offer a wide proficiency curve, in terms of being relatively simple to grasp the basics, but difficult to master, and they almost always have a built-in scoring system to evaluate performance. DeepMind's agents have tackled board game Go, as well as real-time strategy video game StarCraft. But the Alphabet company's most recent feat is Agent57, a learning agent that can beat the average human on each of 57 Atari games with a wide range of difficulty, characteristics and gameplay styles. Being better than humans at 57 Atari games may seem like an odd benchmark against which to measure the performance of a deep learning agent, but it's actually a standard that goes all the way back to 2012, with a selection of Atari classics including Pitfall, Solaris, Montezuma's Revenge and many others. Taken together, these games represent a broad range of difficulty levels, as well as requiring a range of different strategies in order to achieve success.