DeepMind makes bet on AI system that can play poker, chess, Go, and more

DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, has long invested in game-playing AI systems. It's the lab's philosophy that games, while lacking an obvious commercial application, are uniquely relevant challenges of cognitive and reasoning capabilities. This makes them useful benchmarks of AI progress. In recent decades, games have given rise to the kind of self-learning AI that powers computer vision, self-driving cars, and natural language processing. In a continuation of its work, DeepMind has created a system called Player of Games, which the company first revealed in a research paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week.