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Constantly looking for the next big leap in machine-learning, a Google project has set one of the most advanced AI in the world to playing video games. The project comes from DeepMind Technologies, a London-based start-up that Google purchased last year. Researchers showed the AI 49 games on the Atari 2600 and were told to play them without any additional instructions. The above video from the scientific journal Nature, which published an article detailing the project on February 26, shows some of the progress the AI made.

When the AI did well, it was rewarded, in much the same way people do when training a dog. Google’s system exceeded the skills of expert human players in 29 games and far surpassed previous records for AI in 43 of them.

Speaking to , vice president of engineering at Google and DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis said that this represents "the first time anyone has built a single learning system that learns directly from experience and manage a wide range of challenging tasks."

While it might seem a little odd to have one of the best artificial intelligence systems in the world grinding through older games, the experiment has some very practical applications. To learn anything, whether you’re an animal or a computer, you need to be able to adapt after making mistakes and predicting new outcomes to your choices. Old computer games are useful for this because their rules are very simple and failure is clear. AI isn’t anywhere near handling the more complex choices of three-dimensional games, shooters, or MOBAs for example, but if it can learn that going left at time X will always result in a loss, that’s easy for the system to understand.

"It's mastering and understanding the structure of these games, but we wouldn't say yet it's building conceptual knowledge or abstract knowledge," Demis says. "The ultimate goal here is to build smart, general-purpose machines, but we're many decades off from doing that."

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Clipping Error take a look at the latest trailer for Batman Arkham Knight, discussing the secrets within, as well as the gameplay shown.

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Mike Stubbsy: "Last month Nosgoth entered open beta, and I had no idea what it was at all. Then, a few of my regular Dota team mates started playing it on Steam, so not wanting to be a loner I downloaded it and jumped in. Im still yet to play a game with my friends but the one thing that my time with the game has left me wondering, is if the game could work as an eSport. So I decided to ask both Corey Davis the games Design Director and Cat Karskens (Nosgoth Community Manager) what they think about Nosgoths eSport potential."

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The DeepMind Technologies lab at Google has created software that can learn games in a couple of hours, and it learns how to play better than any human after just a few hours more.

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Scarecrow has brought together a band of super villains to take down Batman.

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Mike hopes that the Free-To-Play MMO Neverwinter will finally give him something to play on his Xbox One, besides Blu-rays.

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Gotham is Mine features a closer look at some of the story’s most infamous super-villains. As Scarecrow unites the Rogues Gallery, including Two-Face, The Penguin, the Riddler, the Arkham Knight, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, they bring all-out war as they try to take down The Dark Knight, and claim Gotham City as their own.

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A closer look at some of the story’s most infamous super-villains

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There is a distinct possibility that not only Rock Band but Guitar Hero will be back for an E3 announcement.