Hours after encountering its first video game, and without any human coaching, the AI has not only become better than any human player but has also discovered a way to win that its creator never imagined. A game like Crazy Climber is a closer analogue to the real world than chess is, and in the real world humans still have the edge. Moreover, whereas Deep Blue was highly specialized, and preprogrammed by human grandmasters with a library of moves and rules, DeepMind is able to use the same all-purpose code for a wide array of games.

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