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Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.
Gaming

Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.

The next generation of video games could be filled with AI-generated text, speech, characters, and background art. Nvidia announced a system that enables players to converse directly with in-game characters. Meanwhile, game developers are using generative AI to produce media assets.

June 14, 20232 min read
Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.
Gaming

Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.

The next generation of video games could be filled with AI-generated text, speech, characters, and background art. Nvidia announced a system that enables players to converse directly with in-game characters. Meanwhile, game developers are using generative AI to produce media assets.

June 14, 20232 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
Gaming

Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
Gaming

Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.
Gaming

AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.

Reinforcement learning is powering a new generation of video game cheaters. Players of Rocket League, a video game that ranks among the world’s most popular esports, are getting trounced by cheaters who use AI models originally developed to train contestants.

February 1, 20232 min read
AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.
Gaming

AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.

Reinforcement learning is powering a new generation of video game cheaters. Players of Rocket League, a video game that ranks among the world’s most popular esports, are getting trounced by cheaters who use AI models originally developed to train contestants.

February 1, 20232 min read
Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm
Gaming

Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm

A new algorithm defeated a championship-winning Go model using moves that even a middling human player could counter. Researchers trained a model to defeat KataGo, an open source Go-playing system that has beaten top human players.

November 23, 20222 min read
Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm
Gaming

Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm

A new algorithm defeated a championship-winning Go model using moves that even a middling human player could counter. Researchers trained a model to defeat KataGo, an open source Go-playing system that has beaten top human players.

November 23, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
Gaming

One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
Gaming

One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
Bridge to Explainable AI: AI System Outplays Human Bridge Champions
Gaming

Bridge to Explainable AI: AI System Outplays Human Bridge Champions

DeepMind’s AlphaGo famously dominated Go, a game in which players can see the state of play at all times. A new AI system demonstrated similar mastery of bridge, in which crucial information remains hidden.

April 27, 20222 min read
Bridge to Explainable AI: AI System Outplays Human Bridge Champions
Gaming

Bridge to Explainable AI: AI System Outplays Human Bridge Champions

DeepMind’s AlphaGo famously dominated Go, a game in which players can see the state of play at all times. A new AI system demonstrated similar mastery of bridge, in which crucial information remains hidden.

April 27, 20222 min read
Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'
Gaming

Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'

A video game studio is looking to machine learning to cut the effort and expense of populating three-dimensional scenes with animated animals.

April 6, 20222 min read
Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'
Gaming

Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'

A video game studio is looking to machine learning to cut the effort and expense of populating three-dimensional scenes with animated animals.

April 6, 20222 min read
Fast and Daring Wins the Race: GT Sophy AI model beats humans at Gran Turismo Sport.
Gaming

Fast and Daring Wins the Race: GT Sophy AI model beats humans at Gran Turismo Sport.

Armchair speed demons have a new nemesis. Peter Wurman and a team at Sony developed Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), a reinforcement learning model that defeated human champions of Gran Turismo Sport, a PlayStation game that simulates auto races right down to tire friction and air resistance.

February 16, 20222 min read

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