Vicarious - General Game Playing with Schema Networks

The success of deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) in playing games has resulted in a large amount of excitement in the AI community and beyond (Mnih et al., 2015; Mnih et al., 2016; Silver et al., 2016; Van Hasselt et al., 2016). State-of-the-art scores in many different games have now surpassed human level. But to what extent do these feats demonstrate that the AI has developed a human-like understanding of the objectives of the game? When humans play a new game, they first develop a conceptual understanding of the game. Suppose you were seeing a game like Breakout (see below) for the first time.