On Tuesday, September 18, Sean Devlin, Entrepreneur in Residence with the School of Business Center for Innovation and Ethics, delivered a talk, Deep Reinforcement Learning: The fundamentals of how AI wins games and beyond. Sean discussed the fundamentals of deep reinforcement learning, the primary field of AI being used to beat world champion players in games like Go and Dota 2.  He explored Google Deep Mind’s seminal 2013 paper “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” and concluded with some thoughts on the future of a research field that is part hype and part promise.