AIs Are Getting Better At Playing Video Games...By Cheating
Earlier this year, researchers tried teaching an AI to play the original Sonic the Hedgehog as part of the The OpenAI…
Artificial Intelligence Gets Good At Creating Anime Girls
The types of anime-style characters artificial intelligence was making in 2015 weren’t good. But now in 2018, the…
Dota 2 Pros Play Bots, Get Wrecked
A team of three former Dota 2 pros, one current pro, and a commentator played against five artificial intelligence bots…
Using AI To Turn Real People Into Anime Art
Nijigenka (二次元化) is Japanese for “2D-ification.” It’s a term for when artists take photos of people and turn them into…
Ubisoft’s Personal Gaming Assistant Is A Great Idea That’s Not Quite There Yet
Ubisoft’s personal gaming assistant, previously only available in Canada, is now out worldwide. Its name is Sam, a nod…
Players Discover That One Road In GTA Online Makes Every NPC Crash
There are countless turns and intersections in GTA Online, most of them unremarkable in every way. One specific sharp…
Blizzard Is Trying To Teach Computers To Spot Overwatch Jerks
Despite arriving too late to prevent what some might call a full-blown crisis, Overwatch’s anti-toxicity efforts seem…
EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield
Electronic Arts’ Search for Extraordinary Experiences (SEED) Division—which sounds like an anime space force—has…
Breath Of The Wild's Horses Do The Darndest Things
It’s been a good year for games. Trying to arrive at a shortlist for the best ones to come out in 2017 is going be…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Meanwhile in Japan, Microsoft's A.I. Chatbot Has Become an Otaku
This was bound to happen. So were the questions about Hitler.
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…