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,...
At Qualcomm, 5G is headed everywhere and into virtually everything
It was easy to call 5G inevitable. Whatever it was, some next-generation cellular technology was certain to follow 2G, 3G, and 4G into the...
After 5,000 games, Microsoft’s Suphx AI can defeat top Mahjong players
Bolstered by algorithmic breakthroughs and an abundance of cheap computing power, AI has become a veritable games champion, notching wins against the world’s top-ranked...
IBM’s tennis AI measures player performance and selects highlights
Tennis and AI are like peas in a pod, if you ask IBM. The folks at the Armonk, New York-based company today detailed Coach...
Tencent’s Honor of Kings AI beats a team of pros
In yet another example of machine learning algorithms besting teams of highly skilled players, an autonomous system devised by Tencent’s AI lab yesterday defeated...
These Minecraft videos show off over 500 hours of demonstrations
Who knew Minecraft offered such a rich training ground for AI and machine learning algorithms? Earlier this month, Facebook researchers posited that the hit...
The demographic, 5G, AR, and mobile trends shaping the next generation of gaming (VB Live)
Presented by Treasure Data Four trends are about to transform the next generation of gaming. Join this free VB Live event to learn how...
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...