Square Enix establishes new company to pursue ‘entertainment AI’
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a smash hit for publisher Square Enix. Like the last time a Final Fantasy VII game put Square on...
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Two years ago, Nvidia researchers detailed AI that could generate visuals and combine them with a game engine to create an interactive, navigable environment....
IBM claims its Neural Computer achieves record AI model training time
In a technical paper quietly released earlier this year, IBM detailed what it calls the IBM Neural Computer, a reconfigurable parallel processing system designed...
Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions
Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge — Read...
DeepMind’s AI studies game players to exploit weaknesses in their strategies
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games...
Microsoft’s Mahjong-winning AI could lead to sophisticated finance market prediction systems
Last August, Microsoft Research Asia detailed an AI system dubbed Super Phoenix (Suphx for short) that could defeat Mahjong players after learning from only...
DeepMind’s Agent57 beats humans at 57 classic Atari games
In a preprint paper published this week by DeepMind, Google parent company Alphabet’s U.K.-based research division, a team of scientists describe Agent57, which they...
Google trained Pixel 4’s Soli AI on millions of gestures from volunteers
Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were...
DeepMind technique encourages AI players to cooperate in zero-sum games
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could...
Alexa can now send driving directions to your phone on your way out the door
Amazon’s Alexa just became a bit more useful thanks to the addition of new features aimed at commuters, weather watchers, and basketball fans. They...