How 'Assassin's Creed' Or 'Fallout 4' Might Help Make AI Smarter (technologyreview.com)

moon_unit2 writes: Apparently, playing computer games might provide a shortcut to greater intelligence. MIT Technology Review has a story about researchers using virtual game environments to train deep neural networks to recognize real-world objects. It's an important idea because deep learning usually requires huge quantities of annotated data, which isn't always available. So researchers from Xerox Europe, led by Adrien Gaidon, showed that training a deep learning system on a photo-realistic street scene could enable it to identify cars on real roads. "The nice thing about virtual worlds is you can create any kind of scenario," Gaidon says. Perhaps video games could play a bigger role in the future of AI than anyone realized.

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Doomed to fail

[avandesande]

Look at what it has done to 'real' intelligence.