A.I. players master ‘Quake III Arena,’ manage to outperform humans
Those among us who fear that we’ve already passed the point of no return when it comes toartificial intelligencebecoming self-aware and plotting to murder the human race will likely cite A.I. research company DeepMind’s latest experiment as further proof of that notion. Using Id Software’sQuake IIIArena, DeepMind has managed totrain artificial playersto be even more effective than their human counterparts. Thechallenge for DeepMindwas not to see if its A.I. agents could defeat human players in battle, but rather if they could work together on procedurally generated levels to complete an objective — in this case, capture the flag....