The Next Big A.I. Challenge: Doom - Dice Insights

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter. In March, an A.I. platform named AlphaGo beat a human champion in the game of Go. Now the machines are prepping for their next big challenge: first-person shooter video games. Later this year, the 2016 Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) Conference will host an event in which bots will pummel each other in classic "Doom," the 1993 blockbuster that established the template for a generation of action games. The CIG event will feature two "tracks": a limited match on a map known to the participants beforehand, in which bots can arm themselves with rocket launchers, and a full match on an unknown map, with every game weapon and item available.