Konvoy: Games venture funding declines in Q2 2023, ripe for M&A
Venture capital funding for gaming continues to decline in Q2 2023, per Konvoy Ventures latest games industry report. However, the venture firm believes this...
37% of gamers in Asia are female per Niko Partners study
Female gamers are a growing force in the Asian games market according to a new study from Niko Partners. After surveying 7,548 gamers in...
DeepMind makes bet on AI system that can play poker, chess, Go, and more
DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, has long invested in game-playing AI systems. It’s the lab’s philosophy that games, while...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
In a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, DeepMind researchers describe a reinforcement learning algorithm-generating technique that discovers what to predict and how...
Google builds AI agent that learns to generalize to new environments by ignoring distractions
In a study earlier this year accepted to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020, Google researchers investigate the properties of AI software...
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Two years ago, Nvidia researchers detailed AI that could generate visuals and combine them with a game engine to create an interactive, navigable environment....
DeepMind’s AI studies game players to exploit weaknesses in their strategies
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games...
Microsoft’s Mahjong-winning AI could lead to sophisticated finance market prediction systems
Last August, Microsoft Research Asia detailed an AI system dubbed Super Phoenix (Suphx for short) that could defeat Mahjong players after learning from only...
Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...