From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

Google DeepMind looks back on its game-driven AI research journey: DQN playing 49 Atari games, AlphaGo defeating Lee Sedol in 2016, AlphaStar reaching Grandmaster level in StarCraft II, with foundations extending to AlphaFold and recognition via the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.