{"id":7492,"date":"2021-08-31T18:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1365659"},"modified":"2021-08-31T18:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:55:42","slug":"why-the-pentagons-probably-drooling-over-the-upcoming-age-of-empires-4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Why the Pentagon\u2019s probably drooling over the upcoming Age of Empires 4 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Microsoft, a company with numerous military contracts, has brazenly admitted it intends to train an artificial intelligence agent to become \u201cunbeatable\u201d by humans in war simulations.<\/p>\n

Feel free to run amok in a fugue state of panic at your own discretion, but I should point out it\u2019s for a video game.<\/p>\n

Of course, that doesn\u2019t really make it any less scary.<\/p>\n

Up front:<\/b> an upcoming real-time strategy game titled Age of Empires 4 <\/i><\/a>is set to release on Xbox Game Pass at the end of October. It\u2019s being developed by Relic and published by Xbox Game Studios. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kotaku\u2019s Alex Walker recently interviewed<\/a> Microsoft Studios\u2019 creative director, Adam Isgreen, to discuss the game\u2019s AI. Per Walker\u2019s article:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Age 4 already used machine learning to train its AI, but after the game launches this October, the developers will probably add this harder difficulty mode that will just continually learn from whatever the current meta is. \u201cWe use machine learning in training the AI right now, but we want to take that even further. <\/span><\/p>\n

Down the road, not at launch, we\u2019ll probably look into having a merciless AI that keeps learning the more people play against it, to the point that it\u2019ll be unbeatable,\u201d Isgreen said. \u201cBut we\u2019re OK with that, because if you opt into that difficulty, if you want to opt into making the AI better at beating you, go right ahead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Background:<\/b> Isgreen\u2019s careful to point out that Age 4<\/i> uses \u201cmachine learning\u201d to train its \u201cAI.\u201d In this case, they mean they use machine learning to train the game\u2019s computer opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never played any of the <\/span>Age of Empires<\/i> games, they\u2019re a bit like boardless board games you can play with other people or against a simulated opponent controlled by the game\u2019s logic.<\/span><\/p>\n