DeepMind’s Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
Some AI systems achieve goals in challenging environments by drawing on representations of the world informed by past experiences. They generalize these to novel...
AI generates Let’s Play commentary from videos
Let’s Play videos — which document game playthroughs — have surged in popularity in the past decade. Felix Kjellberg, better known by his online...
Facebook researchers propose an AI assistant for Minecraft
If you’ve ever wished Minecraft had an Alexa-like assistant that could perform any task asked of it, you’re in luck. Facebook researchers recently argued...
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...
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...
OpenAI and DeepMind AI system achieves ‘superhuman’ performance in Pong and Enduro
Machines learning to play games by watching humans might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but that’s exactly what researchers at...
Researchers use VR to train AI drones, cutting autonomous vehicle crashes
MIT researchers have developed a technique to train fast-moving autonomous AI drones using VR-enhanced environments, reducing crashes and thereby the need for repairs or...
Ubisoft researcher takes a bird’s-eye view of tech, games, and entertainment
Lidwine Sauer is paid to be one of Ubisoft’s big thinkers. She’s the director of insights and trends for Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab, a...
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App Annie launches internal research team, hires top IDC analyst
Even before scoring former IDC mobile lead Danielle Levitas, the mobile analytics company was on a senior exec hiring spree.