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DeepMind’s AI Agents Exceed Human-Level Gameplay in Quake III

posted by CoolHand on Monday July 09 2018, @10:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-road-to-skynet dept.

MrPlow writes:

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AI agents continue to rack up wins in the video game world. Last week, OpenAI's bots were playing Dota 2; this week, it's Quake III, with a team of researchers from Google's DeepMind subsidiary successfully training agents that can beat humans at a game of capture the flag.

As we've seen with previous examples of AI playing video games, the challenge here is training an agent that can navigate a complex 3D environment with imperfect information. DeepMind's researchers used a method of AI training that's also becoming standard: reinforcement learning, which is basically training by trial and error at a huge scale.

Agents are given no instructions on how to play the game, but simply compete against themselves until they work out the strategies needed to win. Usually this means one version of the AI agent playing against an identical clone. DeepMind gave extra depth to this formula by training a whole cohort of 30 agents to introduce a "diversity" of play styles. How many games does it take to train an AI this way? Nearly half a million, each lasting five minutes.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/4/17533898/deepmind-ai-agent-video-game-quake-iii-capture-the-flag

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 09 2018, @11:25PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday July 09 2018, @11:25PM (#704773) Homepage Journal

    Well no shit a bot can do a better job than humans at a FPS. They don't have the limits of human reflexes. I'd be amazed if a bot couldn't beat a human at any twitch game. It doesn't even have to be an AI bot, a handcoded one will do just fine.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Monday July 09 2018, @11:30PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday July 09 2018, @11:30PM (#704779)

    I think the point was that after the AI takes your job, it will keep making your life miserable when you're playing to forget your troubles.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @11:45PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @11:45PM (#704788)

      Hell, if this means that we might get opponents in single player and cooperative games that aren't dumb as a box of rocks, I say go for it.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 10 2018, @12:55AM

        by c0lo (156) on Tuesday July 10 2018, @12:55AM (#704819) Journal

        Hell, if this means that we might get opponents in single player and cooperative games that aren't dumb as a box of rocks me

        FTFY
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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday July 10 2018, @01:58AM

      by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 10 2018, @01:58AM (#704855) Journal

      The Mighty Bot?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @11:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @11:42PM (#704786)

    But can a Twitch bot show bobs and vegana?