Sony's new AI beats humans in Gran Turismo racing game


Sony mentioned on Wednesday it has created a man-made intelligence agent referred to as Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) that was capable of beat world's finest drivers of the PlayStation racing simulation sport Gran Turismo.


To get GT Sophy prepared for the sport, totally different models of Sony introduced in elementary AI analysis, a hyper-realistic actual world racing simulator, and infrastructure for enormous scale AI coaching, the corporate mentioned in an announcement.


The AI first raced in opposition to 4 finest Gran Turismo drivers in July, learnt from the race and outperformed the human drivers in one other race in October.


"It took about 20 PlayStations working concurrently for about 10 to 12 days to coach GT Sophy to race from scratch to superhuman degree," mentioned Peter Wurman, director of Sony AI America and the chief of the staff who designed the AI.


Whereas AI had been used to defeat people within the video games of chess, Mahjong and Go, Sony mentioned the problem in mastering race automobile driving was the various choices that have to be made in actual time.


Sony's rival, Microsoft, which just lately purchased Activision for $69 billion, has been utilizing video games to enhance AI by providing up new challenges for AI fashions to resolve.


Gran Turismo, a racing simulation online game, made its debut in 1997 and has bought over 80 million models.


Sony desires to use the learnings to different PlayStation video games.


"There are quite a lot of video games that pose totally different challenges for AI and we're wanting ahead to beginning to work on these issues," he mentioned.

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    On this July 19, 2019, file photograph, folks stroll out from the headquarters of Sony Corp., in Tokyo. (AP Picture/Koji Sasahara, File)

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