[falsedan]

Is it just me, or is this article extremely light on content? The core of it seems to be

  > sequential social dilemmas, and us[ing] artificial agents trained by deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to study [them]

But I didn't find out how to recognise a sequential social dilemma, nor their training method.

[roymurdock]

Here's the actual paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/papers/multi-a...

Don't expect any crazy deep insights, but it's a useful read if you want to set up a similar experiment or understand the research methodology.