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...
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...
Facebook’s AI extracts playable characters from real-world videos
Remember those FMV games from the ’90s — the ones that blended prerecorded clips with animated sprites and 3D models? Facebook is bringing them...
Google researchers improve reinforcement learning by having their AI play Pong
Deep reinforcement learning — an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals — has been tapped to model the...
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...
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...
Final Fantasy VII HD graphics mod makes backgrounds less blurry with machine learning
Tired of waiting for that Final Fantasy VII remake? Well, this new mod won’t make the original game look like a modern triple-A title,...
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...