Google's DeepMind now learning by challenging Atari

In order to train DeepMind the company elected to show the artificial intelligence platform YouTube videos of games being played, rather than go through the painstaking process of playing against the platform game after game. The aim was to try to strengthen a weakness with artificial intelligence: one of exploration. Most platforms are weak in attempting to find new places to go, and this is a step towards thinking creatively. The gaming platform used to help improve artificial intelligence was classic Atari video games. The main game used was Montezuma's Revenge, which is a 1984 platform game for Atari 8-bit computers.