How video games help improve real-world AI
For decades, video games have been criticized for purportedly wasting time, stifling creativity, and even influencing violent behaviors. Now, it seems that video games...
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2017
Facebook has unveiled a host of new features at its 2017 F8 developer conference, most focused on the curation of its global community. Attendees...
How to take AI far beyond gaming
Venture capital investments in artificial intelligence (AI), one of the biggest technological trends these days, are booming. The year 2016 saw almost ten times...
Why The Last Guardian’s AI is a good example for chatbot developers
The game The Last Guardian features one big achievement that’s fairly awe-inspiring. It’s not the level design or even the gameplay, which are both compelling...
Helpshift pulls Cisco into $25 million round for in-app customer support
Cisco is joining as an investor into Helpshift‘s previously announced $25 million funding round. That’s a big endorsement for the startup’s business of providing...
Here’s why data scientists are slowing bots down by a factor of 1 trillion to play StarCraft II
When you play chess or Go, you have perfect information. You know everything about the current state and past history of every piece on...
Activision launches Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare tour-guide bot for Facebook Messenger
Ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in five days, Activision launched a Facebook Messenger bot that acts as a tour...
The Anki Cozmo toy robot has personality, intelligence … and might rule the world
It’s a remarkably strange experience when you are defeated by a robot. You feel a little foolish or wonder if the world is going...
GamesBeat and Bots showcase VentureBeat’s new Channel Strategy
What if there were information sources that could keep you up-to-the-minute informed on the technology topics that matter most? What if there were one-stop shops...
Bot platform from PullString, maker of Barbie and Call of Duty bots, lets you create characters
The PullString platform for the creation of storytelling bots made its debut today. For the better part of the last decade, the PullString platform...