Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
Gaming

Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.

A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.

April 21, 20212 min read
Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
Gaming

Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.

A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.

April 21, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Gaming

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Gaming

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Gaming

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Gaming

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.
Gaming

Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.

According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, the bigger the neural network, the more likely some of its weights are initialized to values that are well suited to learning to perform the task at hand. But just how big does it need to be?

November 4, 20202 min read
Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.
Gaming

Life Is Easier for Big Networks: Neural networks learn better with more parameters.

According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, the bigger the neural network, the more likely some of its weights are initialized to values that are well suited to learning to perform the task at hand. But just how big does it need to be?

November 4, 20202 min read
RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.
Gaming

RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.

A new multimedia experience lets audience members help artificially intelligent creatures work together to survive. Agence, an interactive virtual reality (VR) project blends audience participation with reinforcement learning to create an experience that’s half film, half video game.

October 21, 20202 min read
RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.
Gaming

RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.

A new multimedia experience lets audience members help artificially intelligent creatures work together to survive. Agence, an interactive virtual reality (VR) project blends audience participation with reinforcement learning to create an experience that’s half film, half video game.

October 21, 20202 min read
Chess: The Next Move: Chess masters use AI to test variants of the game.
Gaming

Chess: The Next Move: Chess masters use AI to test variants of the game.

AI has humbled human chess masters. Now it’s helping them take the game to the next level. DeepMind and retired chess champion Vladimir Kramnik trained AlphaZero, a reinforcement learning model that bested human experts in chess, Go, and Shogi, to play-test changes in the rules.

September 16, 20201 min read
Chess: The Next Move: Chess masters use AI to test variants of the game.
Gaming

Chess: The Next Move: Chess masters use AI to test variants of the game.

AI has humbled human chess masters. Now it’s helping them take the game to the next level. DeepMind and retired chess champion Vladimir Kramnik trained AlphaZero, a reinforcement learning model that bested human experts in chess, Go, and Shogi, to play-test changes in the rules.

September 16, 20201 min read
Monsters in Motion: Source of Madness is an AI-powered Lovecraftian nightmare.
Gaming

Monsters in Motion: Source of Madness is an AI-powered Lovecraftian nightmare.

How do you control a video game that generates a host of unique monsters for every match? With machine learning, naturally. The otherworldly creatures in Source of Madness learn how to target players through reinforcement learning.

July 15, 20201 min read
Monsters in Motion: Source of Madness is an AI-powered Lovecraftian nightmare.
Gaming

Monsters in Motion: Source of Madness is an AI-powered Lovecraftian nightmare.

How do you control a video game that generates a host of unique monsters for every match? With machine learning, naturally. The otherworldly creatures in Source of Madness learn how to target players through reinforcement learning.

July 15, 20201 min read
Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.
Gaming

Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.

Reinforcement learning can beat humans at video games, but humans are better at coming up with strategies to master more complex tasks. New work enables neural networks to connect the dots.

June 10, 20202 min read

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