Deloitte: Younger generations have one foot in the metaverse via gaming and social media
Deloitte said that younger generations are behaving in a way that suggests they will live their lives online and embrace the metaverse. The big...
Deloitte: Online entertainment and games prosper as most consumers still don’t go out
Nearly two years into the pandemic, most consumers still aren’t comfortable going out for entertainment. And as a result, 84% are spending more time...
DeepMind’s MuZero picks up the rules of games as it plays
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach itself...
Why I invert the camera controls in video games: Empathy
Science is finally studying the beautiful minds of inverted gamers. Dr. Jennifer Corbett is the co-head of Brunel University’s Visual Perception and Attention Lab...
Americans of all ages are spending more on video games
We know that time and money spent on video games is surging due to the pandemic. Now, industry-tracking firm The NPD Group is providing detail...
AI model creates 3D avatars from a person’s picture
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a paper accepted to the...
DeepMind hopes to teach AI to cooperate by playing Diplomacy
DeepMind, the Alphabet-backed machine learning lab that’s tackled chess, Go, Starcraft 2, Montezuma’s Revenge, and beyond, believes the board game Diplomacy could motivate a...
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....
Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions
Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge — Read...
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...