The smartphone video game Flappy Bird was removed from smartphones in 2014 by its creator, Dong Nguyen, because it was too addictive. But the program lives on as an inspiration to deep learning researchers. Specifically, International Business Machines scientists this week unveiled research into how machines can continually learn tasks, including playing Flappy Bird, improving over time rather than learning one level of play and stopping at that.
Known as lifelong learning, or continuous learning, the area has been studied for decades but remains a formidable research challenge.
Source: ZDNet
