An AI Is Beating Some Of The Best Dota Players In The World
OpenAI used the action at this year’s Dota 2 championships as an opportunity to show off its work by having top players lose repeatedly to its in-game bot.
StarCraft Could Be the Next Game AI Destroys Us At
My experience with StarCraft was probably the stupidest possible: I really liked the books. Sure, I played the games, but mostly I played single-player because I was not very good, and enjoyed the story. But for some reason, it was Sarah Kerrigan’s tale told through the novelization that resonated with me the most.
Microsoft's AI Just Shattered the Ms. Pac-Man High Score
According to Twin Galaxies, the official high score for the arcade version of Ms. Pac-Man belongs to Abdner Ashman, with 933,580 points. Or at least it did, before an artificial intelligence developed by Microsoft achieved the maximum possible score for the game, 999,990.
I Can't Stop Watching A GTA V AI Learning How To Drive On Twitch
Right now, a little over 1,000 people are watching an AI drive like a maniac on GTA V. I can’t look away, even as the AI causes pandemonium across the streets of Los Santos.
Computer Learns To Create Its Own Pokémon, And They're Great
You can train a Neural Network—basically a machine that learns—to do all kinds of things. The best thing, though, is to create a list of its own fake Pokémon. Please welcome Stangute, Tortabool and Ronch to the Pokédex.
The New Tech That Could Turn Police Body Cams Into Nightmare Surveillance Tools
Time and time again, police officers shoot, and sometimes kill, civilians holding harmless objects, later claiming they mistook them for guns: a cell phone, a bible, and a Wii controller. In early February, police body camera manufacturer Taser announced that it had acquired the artificial intelligence startup Dextro…
GTA Online Players Have A New Conspiracy Theory That NPCs Are Out To Kill Them
Recently, a paranoia has taken a hold of some GTA Online players, who are convinced that recent updates are forcing drivers to be more aggressive. It’s probably not true, but the idea has gotten many sharing potential evidence of that conspiracy theory.
Blizzard Wants To Know If Google's DeepMind AI Can Conquer StarCraft II
Although competitive StarCraft is in decline, Blizzard is still trying to breathe some new life into its decades old RTS series. During the company’s keynote presentation yesterday at BlizzCon 2016, Blizzard’s president, Michael Morhaime announced, announced new co-op missions and a new co-op commander would be added…
Doom Bot Learns To Play Better Than Humans
Two Carnegie Mellon University students have programmed the ultimate killing machine. If you face off against their AI in Doom’s deathmatch, that is.
Watch This Fascinatingly Incoherent Short Film Written By a Neural Network
We’re getting A.I. to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things these days, whether its on the small-scale of text prediction or captioning photos, to driving cars for us and beating people at board games. But what if we turned a neural network into a science fiction writer? The answer is that you’d get a complete…
A Look At One Man's Work On Uncharted 4
Most big video games these days are the result of a team of dozens, if not hundreds of people working on them. Amidst all that collaboration, what can one, single human being point to and say “this, this is mine, I made this?”
The Creators of Siri Are Releasing a New AI Next Week
Although you might associate Siri with Apple, that particular pocket assistant wasn’t born in Cupertino. In fact, Siri was an independent app before its acquisition by Apple in 2010, and now its founders are back with a new and improved version, “Viv.”
Microsoft's Caption A.I. Is Sometimes Right, Sometimes Stupid
Microsoft has launched a new CaptionBot, and the results range from impressively spot on to bwah.
Chinese Engineers Want to Pit Their AI Against AlphaGo
Earlier this month, Google’s Go-playing AI wiped the floor with the game’s existing world champion. Now, a team of engineers from China plan to challenge AlphaGo with their own artificial intelligence system.
Meanwhile in Japan, Microsoft's A.I. Chatbot Has Become an Otaku
This was bound to happen. So were the questions about Hitler.
Why It's So Hard for AI to Play Some Games
When Google’s AI beat a world champion at Go, scientists and technologists around the globe held it up as a watershed moment for AI. But why, exactly, is it so hard for a computer to play some games well?
Minecraft Is Now a Playground for AI Experiments
Microsoft has announced that it’s starting to use Minecraft as a space in which to build, test and develop new artificial intelligence systems. The new platform, developed by academics, will be made available to everyone over the summer.
Luigi Beats New Smash Bros. DLC Characters By Doing Absolutely Nothing
It is 2016, and the Year of Luigi still hasn’t ended.
AI Learns To Beat Master Of Ancient Chinese Board Game
Go is a board game from China that’s over 2000 years old. It’s complex as hell: there are more possible positions in the game than there are atoms in the universe. So news that a Google AI has beaten a human master at the game is fascinating/terrifying.
Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 Resolution: Build An AI To Run His House
Mark Zuckerberg just revealed his 2016 resolution: build a simple AI to help him run his home.
