8 HOW TO BEAT ATARI GAMES BY USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Even before Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, word about this new research company was spreading quietly. At a machine learning conference in late 2012, for instance, DeepMind had been competing aggressively with companies like Facebook and Google to recruit members of the machine learning community.
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And conference attendees learned that the founder of this mysterious company was Demis Hassabis, a quiet, brilliant, and ambitious neuroscientist.