{"id":140429,"date":"2022-06-12T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researchers-use-overcooked-to-train-ai-to-be-a-better-gaming-buddy"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:03:30","slug":"researchers-use-overcooked-to-train-ai-to-be-a-better-gaming-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researchers-use-overcooked-to-train-ai-to-be-a-better-gaming-buddy","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use Overcooked to train AI to be a better gaming buddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-overcooked-to-train-ai-to-be-a-better-gaming-buddy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These new, more diverse approaches to training AI let it adapt to different play-styles, to make it a better team mate.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DeepMind researchers have been using the chaotic cooking game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/overcooked-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcooked (opens in new tab)<\/a> to teach AI to better collaborate with humans. MIT researchers have followed suit, gifting their AI the ability to distinguish between a diverse range of play-styles. What\u2019s amazing is that it\u2019s actually working\u2014the humans involved actually preferred playing with the AI.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been dropped into a game with strangers only to find their play-style totally upends your own? There\u2019s a reason we\u2019re better at gaming with people we know\u2014they get us. As a team, you make a point of complementing each other\u2019s play-style so you can cover all bases, and win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These new, more diverse approaches to training AI let it adapt to different play-styles, to make it a better team mate. DeepMind researchers have been using the chaotic cooking game Overcooked (opens in new tab) to teach AI to better collaborate with humans. MIT researchers have followed suit, gifting their AI the ability to distinguish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}