Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings...
DeepMind’s Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
Some AI systems achieve goals in challenging environments by drawing on representations of the world informed by past experiences. They generalize these to novel...
Facebook trains AI to generate worlds in a fantasy text adventure
Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate...
DeepMind’s MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar Final beats 99.8% of human StarCraft 2 players
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind — which famously developed AlphaZero, a machine learning system that bested world champions in chess, shogi, and Go — returned to...
Google’s Motion Sense hands-on: Controlling games and apps with gestures
During a session at Google’s I/O 2015 conference headlined by the Advanced Technologies and Projects Group (ATAP), engineers demoed what they called Project Soli,...
How to watch the Made by Google 2019 stream
It’s that time of year again. The Made by Google 2019 event kicks off at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific) today in the...
Researchers develop AI that can play Angry Birds
Rovio’s Angry Birds, a title that tasks players with slingshotting colorful fowl toward ill-intentioned, egg-stealing swine, has been characterized by one reviewer as “one...
Google Assistant can now launch games, capture screenshots, and more on Xbox One
Add the Xbox One to the long list of things Google Assistant can control. This morning, Microsoft and Google jointly announced the Xbox Action,...