Some of the 3D virtual gaming environments that Google DeepMind’s SIMA AI has been mastering SIMA Team A Google DeepMind artificial intelligence model can play different open-world video games, such as No Man’s Sky, like a human just by watching video from a screen, which could be a step towards generally intelligent AIs that operate … Read more
Minecraft is a game for humans, but it could help AI too Minecraft Minecraft is not only the best-selling video game in history, it could also be key to creating adaptable artificial intelligence models that can pick up a variety of tasks the way humans do. Steven James at the University of the Witwatersrand in … Read more
“Duck” and “ghost” character sprites generated by an AI Tim Merino et al A simple generative AI tool can create video game maps, character models and emojis from a single-sentence prompt within milliseconds. Julian Togelius and Timothy Merino at New York University and their colleagues designed the system as a way of understanding how simple … Read more
There are concerns in China about the amount of time people spend gaming ALEX PLAVEVSKI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock China’s policy of introducing curfews on video-game playing had no immediate effect on heavy gaming, a study shows. The Chinese state has imposed time limits on access to video games for players under the age of 18 since 1 November … Read more
AI agents successfully organised a Valentine’s Day party in this simulation Stanford University ChatGPT-powered AIs given long-term memory capabilities and personal motivations could role-play characters in a simulated town more believably than human crowd workers. “This idea of creating believable agents that actually exhibit this behaviour – that give the illusion of realism – was … Read more
WHAT if my child is addicted? As a clinical psychologist who works with young people, I am regularly asked by parents about video games. It is never about the positives. It seems they are concerned that if they don’t worry about video games, I will consider them a bad parent. The people I see aren’t … Read more