Rise of the machines: AI learns to play multiplayer game; beats humans at it

jcbose · 发表于 2019-06-01 21:35:06

After besting humans in board games such as Chess and Go, DeepMind's AI has now emerged as a replacement for humans in complex multiplayer game, Quake III Arena.[br][br][br]

[br][br]The impact could even be such that in many areas AI may even replace its human creators. Case in point, Alphabet’s DeepMind AI which is working to replace human beings in virtual battlefields. After besting humans in complex board games such as Chess and Go, DeepMind's AI has now emerged as a replacement for humans in a version of Quake III Arena.[br][br]As opposed to rather simpler games such as Go and Chess, this particular version of Quake III Arena is a multiplayer game like PUBG and thus requires human skills such as cooperation. The game revolves around the idea of capturing the enemy's flag -- while protecting your own flag from their advances. As such, what's being demanded of the AI to win the game here is more than what's been asked of algorithms in the past.[br][br]Unlike Go and Chess, where the AI could simply rely on probabilities, Quake III Arena brings to the equation teamwork and coordination between players. Thus, for a DeepMind AI to have mastered these human skills to defeat other humans is quite a breakthrough. On Alphabet's part, it has called this a major victory for the DeepMind as it has displayed “human-level performance.” [br][br]As for experts, they claim this is more than just an AI winning against humans in a game. The expectation is that AI can now be taught to learn from this and then adapted to improve automated systems in the real world. For example, the learnings from this can be used to help self-driving cars in the future better interact with each other and humans. [br][br]Having said that, all this is still ahead in the future as a lot of work needs to be put in to develop AI systems to handle complex tasks that humans perform on the go. However, DeepMind's victory in Quake III Arena hints at how that eventuality is not too far away. [br][br]Source : timesnownews.com