Two AIs Go Head-to-Head on Atari's 'Breakout' to Test Deep Learning

It seems like every day brings a new AI more capable than the last. This was recently apparent with AlphaGo--it was pretty great at beating Breakout, then Google got involved and soon it was capable of beating the world's leading Go champion. To do this, AlphaGo uses what is known as'deep reinforcement learning'. For example, in Breakout, it will take raw image frames of the game as it's being played. Whether or not the ball is hitting the bricks in those frames will decide whether or not positive reinforcement is registered.