Key takeaways
- Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into daily life, enhancing the capabilities of autonomous robots.
- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science are developing robots that can play social games like Pictionary and chess.
- Creating AI systems for complex games like Pictionary poses significant challenges due to their reliance on visual and verbal communication.
- The demand for AI bots is high, prompting rapid development and marketability despite the complexities involved in their construction.
Artificial intelligence has now entered every sphere of our lives. Autonomous robots are self-dictated, have emotional intelligence and can analyse their surroundings and react accordingly. Robots like Smartibot, Vector by Anki and Evie are some of the coolest robots in the market. They can perform walk, perform chores and even play games.
IISc Research
AI has been in vogue since its ability to mimic human-like game moves was discovered. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are working on a robot that can play Pictionary and other social games like chess with humans. They have already constructed a computational model regarding this project. There’s a demand in development in AI as well, modified AI systems require effort to construct but since the demand in the market is high, AI bots sell easily. For researchers at IISc, it has been a difficult task since Pictionary can be a complex game for a bot to understand. The person who draws uses visual medium while the people who guess use speech medium. The Video Analytics lab at IISc designed used deep-learning to make a neural network which can match up with the sketch and guess like a human. To introduce a model like this, researchers built a comparison between realistic and human drawings of these objects. This helped the robot to give out human-like object guesses. The scientists had an objective to produce agents which can are relatable to humans and can be accepted in their social settings.Game Of Bots
The process through which the AI bots are trained to play games is called Reinforcement learning. According to reports, a bot is given an objective to do and if it performs the task well it is given a reward. The first time, the bot uses random techniques to complete the objective, after it figures out the correct way to earn the reward; it follows that technique again to improve its “moves” in the following games. After multiple attempts, the bots conquer the art of the gameplay since their strategies develop to perform only the best “moves” to win and receive rewards.
There have been several events where scientists have staged up competitions between AI-bots and human e-players. Open AI is an AI system which is backed by tech-titan Elon Musk, participated in a game called Dota 2, they played against 5 e-players. After this event in August 2018, several scientists are creating their own models for robots to make them autonomous.
