Like many online spaces, League of Legends, the most widely played online video game in the world today, is a breeding ground for abusive language and behavior. Fostered by anonymity and amplified ...

Five different AI algorithms have teamed up to kick human butt in Dota 2, a popular strategy computer game. Researchers at OpenAI, a nonprofit based in California, developed the algorithmic A team, ...

University of Queensland researchers have used an algorithm from a video game to gain insights into the behavior of molecules within live brain cells. Dr Tristan Wallis and Professor Frederic Meunier ...

Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

A long-standing goal of artificial intelligence is an algorithm that learns, tabula rasa, superhuman proficiency in challenging domains. Recently, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world ...

Scared of losing your favorite Game Of Thrones character? Technology could hold some comfort. A group of what we can assume are extremely nerdy computer science students at the Technical University of ...

One of the most interesting and useful slang terms to emerge from Reddit in my opinion is ELI5, from its subreddit of the same name, which stands for "Explain It Like I'm 5" years old. The idea is ...

Algorithms are a hot topic of conversation, as Facebook, er, Meta, finds itself criticized for employing algorithms that promote anger and strife for the purpose of increasing customer engagement with ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...