BASALT Minecraft competition aims to advance reinforcement learning

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Deep reinforcement learning, a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning and deep learning, takes what’s known as a reward function and learns to maximize the expected total reward. This works remarkably well, enabling systems […]

Bob Swan: The competition never sleeps, but Intel is waking up

At the CES 2021 online tech trade show, Intel unveiled a lineup of products today aimed at making it more competitive against rival Advanced Micro Devices. In the past couple of years, AMD has made historic gains against Intel in both chip design and third-party manufacturing. Intel has stumbled with its own manufacturing a couple […]

Spirit of Competition, the Hearthstone six-year anniversary event, is here

It has already been six years since Hearthstone first released its open beta on March 11, 2014. To celebrate what the game has evolved into since, Blizzard has revealed several aspects of its Hearthstone anniversary event, Spirit of Competition. Included in the event are the return of several Tavern brawls, free packs, and much more […]