DeepMind Opens Its Games Research to Studios, From Atari to EVE Online
DeepMind Blog·medium signal
Google DeepMind published a retrospective on 15 years of games research and announced it is partnering with game studios to prototype AI-driven gameplay, naming EVE Online. Moving from benchmark environments to shipping commercial titles is the interesting turn; games have been DeepMind's proving ground since Atari but rarely its distribution channel. EVE's persistent multiplayer economy is an unusually harsh environment for agents.