Players of China’s most popular game are training Tencent’s AI
Honor of Kings is pitting players against an AI program named after the Monkey King in the name of science
It’s been three years since Google’s AlphaGo ...
Honor of Kings is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mobile game inspired by League of Legends. The fantasy role playing game, known internationally as Arena of Valor, has 70 million daily active users. It also has an AI player called Wukong, known in Chinese as Jiewu, and gamers in China got a chance to test their abilities against it during the first four days of May.
Developed by the Tencent AI Lab, Wukong is an AI program seeking to use games to improve its learning capabilities and make them more human-like.
...Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company, believes that complex games can be a key step to achieving one of the ultimate AI goals: Artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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