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
Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
Gaming

Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.

Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.

May 27, 20202 min read
Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
Gaming

Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.

Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.

May 27, 20202 min read
Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.
Gaming

Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.

AlphaGo Zero demonstrates superhuman performance playing Go, chess, and shogi. Models like R2D2 do the same playing classic Atari titles. A new approach to deep reinforcement learning is the first to achieve state-of-the-art results playing both board and video games.

January 15, 20202 min read
Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.
Gaming

Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.

AI is contributing to paintings, music, and now a whimsical fantasy video. The Squire is an amateur romp through a snowy realm of knights in armor and damsels in distress. The script was composed by AI Dungeon 2, an interactive text-adventure game based on the GPT-2 language model.

January 15, 20201 min read
Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.
Gaming

Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.

AlphaGo Zero demonstrates superhuman performance playing Go, chess, and shogi. Models like R2D2 do the same playing classic Atari titles. A new approach to deep reinforcement learning is the first to achieve state-of-the-art results playing both board and video games.

January 15, 20202 min read
Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.
Gaming

Here Be Dragons: AI Dungeon 2 generated the script for a short movie.

AI is contributing to paintings, music, and now a whimsical fantasy video. The Squire is an amateur romp through a snowy realm of knights in armor and damsels in distress. The script was composed by AI Dungeon 2, an interactive text-adventure game based on the GPT-2 language model.

January 15, 20201 min read
Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained
Gaming

Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained

In reinforcement learning, if researchers want an agent to have an internal representation of its environment, they’ll build and train a world model that it can refer to. New research shows that world models can emerge from standard training, rather than needing to be built separately.

December 11, 20192 min read
Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained
Gaming

Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained

In reinforcement learning, if researchers want an agent to have an internal representation of its environment, they’ll build and train a world model that it can refer to. New research shows that world models can emerge from standard training, rather than needing to be built separately.

December 11, 20192 min read
Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?: How human chess and go masters cope with being beaten by AI
Gaming

Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?: How human chess and go masters cope with being beaten by AI

Is there any reason to continue playing games that AI has mastered? Ask the former champions who have been toppled by machines.

December 4, 20191 min read
Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?: How human chess and go masters cope with being beaten by AI
Gaming

Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?: How human chess and go masters cope with being beaten by AI

Is there any reason to continue playing games that AI has mastered? Ask the former champions who have been toppled by machines.

December 4, 20191 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Gaming

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Gaming

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
Survival of the Overfittest
Gaming

Survival of the Overfittest

Neuroevolution, which combines neural networks with ideas drawn from Darwin, is gaining momentum. Its advocates claim that they can achieve faster, better results by generating a succession of new models, each slightly different than its predecessors, rather than relying on a purpose-built model.

November 13, 20192 min read
Survival of the Overfittest
Gaming

Survival of the Overfittest

Neuroevolution, which combines neural networks with ideas drawn from Darwin, is gaining momentum. Its advocates claim that they can achieve faster, better results by generating a succession of new models, each slightly different than its predecessors, rather than relying on a purpose-built model.

November 13, 20192 min read

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