While computers are amazing devices for computation there are many problems that aren’t tractable to solutions using strict logic. Some problems are too big, hard, or ambiguous to write explicit instructions for. In this talk I will go over one particular use case of machine learning where many examples of a task being done well could be used to train a neural network to also perform that task well. In this talk I will demo a trained neural network that plays a game from the Google 2011 AI challenge as well as hand written bots.

Intended Audience:
Software engineers and data scientists interested in ideas on how to apply machine learning techniques.