Sony announced this Wednesday (9) that it has created an artificial intelligence agent called Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) that has managed to outperform the best players in the Gran Turismo car racing simulator.
To get GT Sophy ready for competition, different Sony units have put together research on artificial intelligence, a hyper-realistic racing simulator and infrastructure for large-scale machine training, the company said.
GT Sophy first competed with four of Gran Turismo’s best drivers in July, processed the race data and outperformed the humans in a new race in October.
“It took about 20 PlayStations running simultaneously for about 10 to 12 days to train GT Sophy to race from scratch at a superhuman level,” said Peter Wurman, director of artificial intelligence at Sony in the US and leader of the project that developed GT Sophy.
Artificial intelligence agents have been used to defeat humans in games like chess, Mahjong and Go, but Sony said the difficulty in becoming a successful pilot is making too many real-time decisions.
Gran Turismo, a car racing simulator, debuted in 1997 and has accumulated sales of over 80 million units.
Sony wants to apply what it learned from GT Sophy to other games on its PlayStation platform.
“There are many games that pose different challenges to artificial intelligence and we want to start working on these issues,” said Wurman.
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