Facebook AI researchers create a text-based adventure to study how AI speak and act
Artificial intelligence can write news dispatches and riff somewhat coherently on prompts, but can it learn to navigate a fantasy text-based game? That’s what...
OpenAI launches Neural MMO, a massive reinforcement learning simulator
Artificial intelligence that’s beastly at World of Warcraft might not lie too far into the distant future, if OpenAI has its way. The San...
U.S. needs a task force to examine risks AR, VR, and 5G pose to kids
Having now worked in the mobile apps industry for several years, I’m troubled that the most popular technology trends at CES will harm the...
AI learns how to play Montezuma’s Revenge
In 2015, Google subsidiary DeepMind published a landmark paper describing a system that could, given enough time and computational horsepower, learn to play a collection...
Researchers use Samsung data and AI to predict mobile game churn
Churn — that all-important measure of attrition — is often challenging to predict when it comes to mobile games. There are two types of...
A look back at some of AI’s biggest video game wins in 2018
For decades, games have served as benchmarks for artificial intelligence (AI). In 1996, IBM famously set loose Deep Blue on chess, and it became...
This tool lets you generate custom Doom levels with your Roomba
The best use for a Roomba this holiday season isn’t mopping up after a spirited Christmas Eve — if you’re a gamer, that is....
Uber AI ‘reliably’ completes all stages in Montezuma’s Revenge
Montezuma’s Revenge is a notoriously difficult video game for humans, much less artificial intelligence (AI), to beat — the first level alone consists of...
OpenAI and DeepMind AI system achieves ‘superhuman’ performance in Pong and Enduro
Machines learning to play games by watching humans might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but that’s exactly what researchers at...
Microsoft brings Xbox One voice control to Amazon Echo speakers and Windows 10 PCs
Microsoft today introduced Xbox voice control with AI assistants Cortana and Alexa. Xbox One control is available in a range of places where you...