Project Paidia: a Microsoft Research & Ninja Theory Collaboration
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Collaborators: Gaming AI with Haiyan Zhang
| Gretchen Huizinga and Haiyan Zhang
For over a decade, Xbox has been leveraging AI to elevate gaming. Haiyan Zhang, GM of Gaming AI, explores the collaborations behind the work and the potential for generative AI to support better experiences for both players and game creators.
Awards | AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity” by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson
In the news | VentureBeat
Why games may not be the best benchmark for AI
Microsoft believes in the power of gaming as a platform for AI, pointing to Project Paidia. “With projects like this, we’re showing how AI is shifting from competitive applications to being used to empower players to achieve more,” Sam Devlin…
Designer-centered reinforcement learning
| Batu Aytemiz, Mikhail Jacob, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann
In video games, nonplayer characters, bots, and other game agents help bring a digital world and its story to life. They can help make the mission of saving humanity feel urgent, transform every turn of a corner into a gamer’s…
Research Collection – Shall we play a game?
From a research point of view, games offer an amazing environment in which to develop new machine learning algorithms and techniques. And we hope, in due course, that those new algorithms will feed back not just into gaming, but into…
In the news | Analytics India Magazine
Microsoft Is Going Big On Reinforcement Learning. Here’s How
When it comes to research in new-age technologies, Microsoft has been striving hard to stay ahead of its competitors. From recommendations to gaming, the tech giant has been using popular techniques like reinforcement learning to create efficient products for customers that match their interests.
Research Collection – Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
Reinforcement learning is about agents taking information from the world and learning a policy for interacting with it, so that they perform better. So, you can imagine a future where, every time you type on the keyboard, the keyboard learns…
In the news | The AI Blog
With reinforcement learning, Microsoft brings a new class of AI solutions to customers
Countless companies use online recommendation engines to show customers products and experiences that match their interests. And yet, traditional machine learning models that predict what people might prefer are often based on data from past experience.
Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond
| Kamil Ciosek, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides exciting opportunities for game development, as highlighted in our recently announced Project Paidia (opens in new tab)—a research collaboration between our Game Intelligence (opens in new tab) group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and game developer Ninja…