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An AI taught itself to play a video game and now it's beating humans

TechXplore - Fri 31 May 19

Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of machine against human has helped make ...

DeepMind's AI gamer is a better teammate than human players

Newscientist - Thu 30 May 19

DeepMind’s new gaming AI has learned to play Quake III Arena cooperatively with teammates, and performs better than human players

AI learns multi-player video game – and smashes it

Cosmos Magazine - Thu 30 May 19

With no instructions or help, an artificial intelligence program masters a popular video game, against expectations. Drew Turney reports.

DeepMind Deploys Self-taught Agents To Beat Humans at Quake III

IEEE Spectrum - Thu 30 May 19

Without instructions, software agents learn how to crush human players at "Capture the Flag" in Quake III Arena

Google’s DeepMind Can Support, Defeat Humans in Quake III Arena

Extremetech - Mon 3 Jun 19

Google has trained its DeepMind AI to compete in a team environment in order to calculate winning strategies that can both defeat and support human players in Quake III Arena. The post Google’s ...

AI doesn't just beat humans in Quake III, it's more cooperative, too

Techspot - Sun 2 Jun 19

Even in a complex game such as Go, DeepMind was able to teach their AI, AlphaGo, a set of rules, possible moves, and what each position on the board means.

DeepMind's Crazy Good AI Is Now Demolishing Human Players In Quake III Arena

HotHardware - Fri 31 May 19

We often joke about the possibility of a Skynet situation playing out, but even if that never happens, there is at least one way that machines can assert their dominance over the flesh and ...

DeepMind AI uses teamwork to defeat human 'Quake III' players

Engadget - Fri 31 May 19

After developing an AI system that can beat Go and chess, Google-owned DeepMind started tackling a different class of games: multiplayer ones, which usually require teamwork. In a paper ...

Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans

Ars Technica - Thu 30 May 19

Two layers of AI learning help create bots that consistently top humans.

Rise of the Machines: AI beats humans in multiplayer shooter

SpaceDaily - Mon 3 Jun 19

Washington (AFP) May 31, 2019 It's official: the machines are going to destroy you (if, that is, you're a professional multiplayer gamer). A team of programmers at a British artificial ...

DeepMind's new gamer AI goes 'for the win' in multiplayer first-person video games

Eurekalert - Thu 30 May 19

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) DeepMind researchers have taught artificially intelligent gamers to play a popular 3D multiplayer first-person video game with human-like ...