from the amazing results and vintage Atari games deep Minds victory with alphago stunning breakthroughs in robotic arm manipulation and even beating professional players at 1v1 dota the field of reinforcement learning has literally exploded in recent years ever since the impressive breakthrough on the imagenet classification challenge in 2012 the successes of supervised deep learning have continued to pile up and people from many different backgrounds have started using deep neural nets to solve a wide range of new tasks