Atari Games

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Chollet: RL Benchmarks Like Dota and Atari Test Memorization, Not Intelligence
“If you look at Atari games, for instance, or even Dota, you're training on, on the same environment as what you use for testing. So effectively, you're just trying to memorize the best strategies. You're trying to at training time, explore the full space of po…”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 33:08 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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Rogers paid Atari Games $300,000 for Japanese Nintendo Tetris rights
“I think I made the deal for 300,000 dollars.”
Henk Rogers Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 27:51 The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
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Zaremba: RL models need three years of real-time play to learn games
“Well, for instance, in terms of real-time execution, it takes something around three, three, three years of play to learn to play simple games . I mean it, it can be hugely parallelized, therefore it takes a few days to train it on current computers”
Wojciech Zaremba May 17, 2017 ▶ 6:24 An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator

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