Uber’s AI plays text-based games like a human
Can AI learn to play text-based games like a human? That’s the question applied scientists at Uber’s AI research division set out to answer...
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...
Uber AI ‘reliably’ completes all stages in Montezuma’s Revenge
Montezuma’s Revenge is a notoriously difficult video game for humans, much less artificial intelligence (AI), to beat — the first level alone consists of...
Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...
Simcoach Games creates training games that can lead to new careers
Simcoach Games makes training games that show people how to do certain kinds of jobs, and those games can sometimes lead people to adopt new...
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 71 tech funding deals totaling nearly €1.14 billion (about $1.24 billion) in Europe,...
Uber teams with CodeFights to create UberBot, a game to test coding skills of potential hires
In the brutal competition to find and recruit the best programming talent, Uber hopes it has found a way to attract and test a...
Ranked: All 32 billion-dollar mobile Internet startups (report)
A little less than two months ago there were 25 billion-dollar mobile Internet startups. In a sign of just how quickly the mobile ecosystem is...