Sony's Gran Turismo AI racer can drift now, making it even more unbeatable

The world's leading Gran Turismo 7 players have had their shot at beating Sony's AI racer, GT Sophy, and they lost spectacularly. Now, the bot has added drifting to its move set to rub salt on the wounds, as seen in a video from the Gran Turismo World Series 2023 event. The video clearly shows an AI-controlled vehicle drifting around the track like an absolute maniac. Meanwhile, most people can't pull off successful drifts in Mario Kart, let alone in realistic racers like Gran Turismo. GT Sophy, you can guess what the GT stands for, is the result of more than six years of development between Sony AI and Sony Interactive Entertainment, and utilizes deep reinforcement learning methods.