Utopos Games raises $1 million to make AI-based robot battle game Raivo
Utopos Games has raised $1 million for its robot-battle game Raivo, which the company says is the first title to gamify machine learning. In...
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...
AI is becoming esports’ secret weapon
Machine learning is changing the $1 billion esports market, which is projected to reach $1.8 billion by 2022. Computer scientists have made great strides...
ProBeat: Google’s Stadia is all about the cloud and AI
Last Tuesday, Google announced that Gboard now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition. This Tuesday, Google announced the Stadia cloud gaming platform....
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...
OpenAI’s bot can now defeat skilled Dota 2 teams
Artificial intelligence researchers at OpenAI have developed a system -- OpenAI Five -- that can defeat teams of skilled Dota 2 players.