Five years in the past, the coders at DeepMind, a London-primarily based synthetic intelligence company, watched excitedly as an AI taught itself to play a classic arcade recreation. They’d used the hot strategy of the day, deep learning, on a seemingly whimsical activity: mastering Breakout,1 the Atari recreation by which you bounce a ball at a wall of bricks, trying to make every one vanish. 1 Steve Jobs was working at Atari when he was commissioned to create 1976’s Breakout, a job no other engineer wanted. He roped his friend Steve Wozniak, then at Hewlett-­Packard, Alpha Brain Cognitive Support into serving to him. Deep learning is self-schooling for machines