Until recently, if you wanted to learn to develop complex artificial intelligence for a self-driving car, you had to work for a company like Google or Tesla, or skate by on theoretical knowledge from courses and textbooks. OpenAI filled some of the void last year. Launching with over 1,000 flash games, Atari 2600 games, and 80 browser environments, the company sought to narrow the gap between theoretical and practical through use of simplistic simulation. Unfortunately, old school racing sims and Atari games could only take you so far. Today, though, the DeepDrive project made it possible to begin using GTA V…

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