Sony's AI can employ clever strategies to beat the best humans at 'Gran Turismo' - SiliconANGLE

Sony Corp. announced today that it has created an artificial intelligence that can get the better of humans when playing the simulation game "Gran Turismo," which could have implications in the future for self-driving technology. AI has already mastered such games as "Go" and chess, and according to Sony, it took just two days of training for the technology Gran Turismo Sophy or GT Sophy to leave human players in the dust. At the two-day mark it was beating 95% of the best human players, and in the following days kept shaving time from its previous results. Sony said the AI mastered a number of tracks, not only by figuring out when to slow down or accelerate but using tactics such as when the time is right to get in behind a car and use the slipstream. When it became obvious that the car wasn't using a good racing line, it would change to another line.