Can You Beat AI at Arcade Games?

A still from a computer game showing a blue landscape with the words START GAME

Event schedule details

Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June

12.00-18.00

Event location details

NextGen Zone

The Smith Centre (Science Museum)

Come and play against an AI agent trained with reinforcement learning on a classic Atari 2600 game, can you beat its score?

AI agents have been able to be trained to successfully achieve superhuman performance on a wide variety of Atari Arcade games from the 1980s. Recently, new techniques have also been successful in far more complex games such as StarCraft, Dota 2 and Grand Turismo 5. However, it still takes a long time and a lot of effort to train these AI agents!

Do you want to find out more about how we train our gaming-AI? Join us for a chat and to play in real time against some of these AI agents and see how they learn differently - and much more slowly - than humans!

Visitor information

This is a drop in event that is most suitable for ages 13-25. The event has step-free access.

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Event categories

  • Young People (13-25)
  • Workshop
A still from a computer game showing a blue landscape with the words START GAME