Best of the web: Artificial Intelligence news for November 5, 2016

Speaking to PCGamesN's dedicated Blizzard reporter Ben Barrett, lead designer for Diablo 3 Kevin Martens said the end-game dungeons would be getting tweaks under the hood for monster behaviour – as well as giving you a bonus roll on legendary gems at the end if you survive without dying to "reward you for doing well instead of punishing you for doing poorly". DeepMind, a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research, announced a collaboration with the US video game developer Blizzard Entertainment to open up the real-time strategy game'StarCraft II' to AI and Machine Learning. At this week's BlizzCon convention in California, game developer Blizzard announced that it would release tools to allow third parties to teach artificial intelligences to play the real-time wargame Starcraft II. The tools are being developed in collaboration with Google's DeepMind team, and will use the DeepMind platform. Back in March of this year, Google DeepMind had its AI system, AlphaGo, "sit down" with international Go champion Lee Sedol in a 5-game Go match with a purse of a cool $1 million.