{"id":189243,"date":"2024-05-12T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-ai-playing-video-games-is-a-big-deal"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:27:51","slug":"why-ai-playing-video-games-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-ai-playing-video-games-is-a-big-deal","title":{"rendered":"Why AI playing video games is a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-ai-playing-video-games-is-a-big-deal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lab\u2019s latest AI news is something different, though. Instead of designing a model to master a single game, DeepMind has teamed up with researchers from the University of British Columbia to develop an AI agent capable of playing a whole bunch of totally different games.<\/p>\n<p>Called <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/discover\/blog\/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments\/\">SIMA<\/a> (<strong>s<\/strong>calable <strong>i <\/strong>nstructable <strong>m <\/strong>ulti-world <strong>a <\/strong>gent), the project also marks a shift from competitive to <em>cooperative <\/em>play as the AI operates by following human instructions.<\/p>\n<p>But SIMA wasn\u2019t created simply to help sleepy players grind out levels or farm up resources. The researchers instead hope that by better understanding how SIMA learns in these virtual playgrounds, we can make AI agents more cooperative and helpful in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lab\u2019s latest AI news is something different, though. Instead of designing a model to master a single game, DeepMind has teamed up with researchers from the University of British Columbia to develop an AI agent capable of playing a whole bunch of totally different games. Called SIMA (scalable i nstructable m ulti-world a gent), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189243","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}