Google DeepMind Will Train AI Models on the MMORPG Eve Online
A game with more than two decades of virtual space combat, piracy and commerce is apparently fertile ground for training future AI models. Google DeepMind this week announced plans to use the popular roleplaying game Eve Online on Wednesday for training, Bloomberg reports.
Eve Online is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, or MMORPG, developed by Iceland's CCP Games. Players explore and interact with each other in a vast universe, forming corporations and taking part in a wide range of activities like mining and space combat. DeepMind is also taking a minority stake in Fenris Creations, the new name for CCP Games that was also announced on Wednesday.
Although a minority stake, DeepMind's investment is in the millions of dollars, Fenris Creations CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson told Bloomberg.
According to a company blog post, the developer will be independent, with its own board of directors, "giving us...
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