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Blizzard Is Trying To Teach Computers To Spot Overwatch Jerks
9Despite arriving too late to prevent what some might call a full-blown crisis, Overwatch‘s anti-toxicity efforts seem to be bearing fruit. The next step in the battle, says game director Jeff Kaplan, might be having computers, not humans, find the bad actors.
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A Mod For Civilization Makes Rogue AI More Dangerous Than Gandhi’s Nukes
The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk does serious research on preventing the end of the world. For its latest project, the Centre wanted to highlight the risk that unrestrained artificial intelligence poses to civilisation. To do that, it’s released a free mod that turns the video game Civilization V into…
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Surprise! Valve Reveals Two New Heroes For Dota 2
In an unexpected turn of events, Valve revealed not one, but two new heroes for Dota 2. Announced in grandiose fashion, complete with orchestra, the one minute video gave attendees a sneak peek at the currently unnamed additions — a musketeer cat/fox/pangolin and a fey-like creature with a glowing insect companion.
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I Got Into A Fight About Games With A Chatbot
Zo is the spiritual successor to Microsoft Tay – the artificially intelligent chatbot that famously went into a racist, sexist meltdown in 2016. Zo was built with more sophisticated AI software than its predecessor, which translates to more fluid conversations and less maniacal hate speech. However, it turns out Zo really didn’t care for the…
