About this episode

This episode discusses how EVE Online is being used by Google DeepMind to train AI agents.

Can a 23-year-old video game help train the next generation of AI agents? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, about why Google DeepMind has invested in the company and why EVE may be one of the hardest tests for artificial intelligence. EVE Online is not just a space game. It is a persistent virtual civilization with player-run economies, alliances, corporations, spies, propaganda, logistics, years-long wars, and...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: Hilmar Pétursson

Topics covered

• AI training
• video games
• EVE Online
• Google DeepMind
• artificial intelligence
• virtual civilization

Keywords

• AI
• EVE Online
• Hilmar Pétursson
• Google DeepMind
• video games
• artificial intelligence
• training AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google DeepMind, Fenris Creations

Books & works: EVE Online

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