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...
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning simulator
About a dozen members of the Google Brain team today open-sourced Google Research Football Environment, a 3D reinforcement learning simulator for training AI to...
Chef League challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros
Beth Altringer‘s Chef League mobile game on iOS is sure to make your mouth water. It is a game that challenges players to come...
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...
Samsung’s AI animates paintings and photos without 3D modeling
Engineers and researchers from Samsung’s AI Center in Moscow and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have created a model that can generate realistic...
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...
Nvidia CEO Jensen says ‘China looks fine’ for games and AI chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an analyst call that the market for Chinese games looks good, as the market’s gamers continues to grow...
Nvidia’s Q1 revenues down 31% to $2.22 billion, beating modest estimates
Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that were well below last year’s figures, but the graphics and artificial intelligence chip company beat analyst expectations and...
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...