Sony trains AI to leave world’s best Gran Turismo drivers in the dust
by Ian Sample Science editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5VZ3T)
GT Sophy' honed tactics and technique to beat 95% of human players of Playstation game after two days
Having thrashed mortal champions at poker, chess, Go, and Starcraft, an artificial intelligence program has delivered another humiliation, leaving the world's best video game racing drivers in the dust.
Researchers at Sony trained an AI called GT Sophy to play the PlayStation game Gran Turismo and found that it could outrace 95% of human players after two days and continued to shave tenths of a second off its lap times over the following week.
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