Demis Hassabis Demonstrates DeepMind Learning Atari from Pixels

HN commenters use it as the canonical demo of deep reinforcement learning, noting that watching it teaches more than an article does.

A short smartphone-recorded clip from a 2014 event in Paris where DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis presents an AI learning to play old Atari games. The system learns from only the video signal and the score. Audio quality is poor.