Facebook researchers propose an AI assistant for Minecraft
If you’ve ever wished Minecraft had an Alexa-like assistant that could perform any task asked of it, you’re in luck. Facebook researchers recently argued...
This Dota 2 AI predicts player death within a 5-second window
If there’s one insight that might be gleaned from continuing AI research, it’s that many events once assumed unknowable are, in fact, predictable with...
DeepMind’s AI can defeat human players in Quake III Arena’s Capture the Flag mode
Few games are simpler in principle than capturing the flag (excepting perhaps tag or kick the can). Two teams each have a marker located...
AI predicts PUBG player placement from stats and rankings
There’s a reason battle royale games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (commonly abbreviated “PUBG”) and Epic Games’ Fortnite have hundreds of millions of players collectively: They’re...
Adding audio data helps AI navigate 3D mazes
Sight is the sense on which humans chiefly rely to navigate the world, but sound might be just as important — it’s been shown...
OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot defeated 99.4% of players in public matches
OpenAI Five — the AI-imbued bot designed by San Francisco, California-based research organization OpenAI that defeated a professional esports team at Valve’s Dota 2...
Facebook’s AI extracts playable characters from real-world videos
Remember those FMV games from the ’90s — the ones that blended prerecorded clips with animated sprites and 3D models? Facebook is bringing them...
Make content moderation good for business — and change the world (VB Live)
Being called upon to strengthen content moderation has actually proven to be a plus for online communities, because it can actually boost user retention...
Gain 3x users with effective social and game content moderation (VB Live)
Social networks today are undergoing a massive paradigm shift as companies realize that content moderation and positive reinforcement can actually increase user retention and...
Google researchers improve reinforcement learning by having their AI play Pong
Deep reinforcement learning — an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals — has been tapped to model the...