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Promethean AI lets neophytes use their voice to create amazing game environments in minutes

Promethean AI enables people with no programming or digital art experience to create amazing game environments with voice commands. If you doubt this, check out the video embedded in this post. The Ugandan animation students in it were neophytes at creating elaborate scenes for games. But Andrew Maximov, CEO of Promethean AI in Los Angeles, flew to Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and gave a…
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Google’s AI trains state-of-the-art language models using less compute and data

In a recent study, researchers at Google proposed Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately (ELECTRA), an AI language training technique that outperforms existing methods given the same amount of computing resources. This week, months after its publication, the coauthors released the codebase (and pretrained models) for TensorFlow, laying the groundwork for…
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GamingNews

Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming

Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers for the games that they create. It’s the brainchild of Eric Schiermeyer, the founder and CEO of…
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Command & Conquer Remastered Collection debuts on Steam and Origin on June 5

Twenty years ago, I remember interviewing Joe Kucan, an emerging star of video game acting, for his role as the villainous Kane of Command & Conquer. His bald head and mean face epitomized why the player had to save the world from this evil. And now he’s coming back. Kane and all of his vivid video game cinematics will be available in Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection, which…
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Israel’s Toya creates social games for girls on Roblox

Toya is a game studio that makes social games on top of Roblox, but it is different because it is making games with girls and women in mind. Roblox has 115 million monthly active players, and people engage with it more than 1.5 billion hours a month. The top games are…
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March Nintendo Direct in the works with focus on 2020 lineup

The next Nintendo Direct is in the works. The publisher hasn’t confirmed the event yet, but it’s in the final stages of putting the video presentation together. That’s based on what we’re hearing as well as some other indicators. Expect a Nintendo Direct soon. The…
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Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies

While speaking on a panel recently, Landing AI founder and Google Brain cofounder Andrew Ng described a moment when he read the OECD’s AI ethics principles to an engineer, and the engineer told him the words give no instruction on how he should change how he does his job. That’s why, Ng said, any code of conduct should be designed by and for ML practitioners. Well, Microsoft Research must’ve…
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