Google Deepmind AI tries it hand at creating Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering cards - TechRepublic

Tens of million of people worldwide play Hearthstone, an online collectible card game set in the Warcraft universe, which also encompasses the massively popular MMO World of Warcraft and a major movie. Now Google Deepmind, fresh from creating an AI that triumphed at a game it was thought no computer could master, has been using Hearthstone to test ways a machine learning system could generate natural language - such as English - and formal language - such as computer code. Researchers tasked a system with writing the code that sets the behaviour of cards used in Hearthstone and in another famous collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering (MTG). The Deepmind system -- which implemented a novel neural network architecture -- was first trained using code from open-source versions of Hearthstone, programmed in Python, and Magic: The Gathering, programmed in Java. Humans 2.0: How the robot revolution is going to change how we see, feel, and talk Robots aren't going to replace us, but by working hand in hand with us they will redefine what it means to be human. Once trained, researchers tested the ability of the system to generate code needed to represent Hearthstone and MTG cards in each game.