AI bots that beat humans in multi-player game developed

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-enabled machine that can beat human players in a tricky online multiplayer game where player roles and motives are kept secret, says a study. The machine, called ‘DeepRole’, is the first gaming bot that can win online multiplayer games in which the participants’ team allegiances are initially unclear, according the study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. The researchers pitted DeepRole against human players in more than 4,000 rounds of the online game The Resistance: Avalon. “Humans learn from and cooperate with others, and that enables us to achieve together things that none of us can achieve alone,” said study co-author Max Kleiman—Weiner.