Building the Space Invaders gaming bot

We are going to build a gaming bot that can play Space Invaders. Most of you may have played this game or at least heard of it. If you haven't played it or you can't remember it at this moment, then take a look at the following screenshot:

Building the Space Invaders gaming bot

Figure 11.12: Snippet of the Space Invaders game

Hopefully you remember the game now and how it was played. First, we will look at the concepts that we will be using to build this version of the gaming bot. Let's begin!

Understanding the key concepts

In this version of the gaming bot, we will be using the deep Q-network and training our bot. So before implementing this algorithm, ...

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