DeepMind gets good at games (and choosing them) – plus more bits and bytes from the world of machine learning

Roundup If you can't get enough of machine learning news then here's a roundup of extra tidbits to keep your addiction ticking away. Read on to learn more about how DeepMind is helping Google's Play Store, and a new virtual environment to train agents safely from OpenAI. An AI recommendation system for the Google Play Store: Deepmind are helping Android users find new apps in the Google Play Store with the help of machine learning. "We started collaborating with the Play store to help develop and improve systems that determine the relevance of an app with respect to the user," the London-based lab said this week. Engineers built a model known as a candidate generator.