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Google’s new AI will play video games with you — but not to win


SIMA aims to be a better multiplayer gamer.

In a blog post, Google said that SIMA doesn’t need a custom API to play the games or access source codes. To do this, the team first built a new environment in the Unity engine where the agents needed to create sculptures to test their understanding of object manipulation. SIMA project co-lead Frederic Besse said it’s too early to tell what kind of uses AI agents like it could bring to gaming outside of the research sphere.

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