Sony's Gran Turismo Sophy project wins the ACM SIGAI Industry Award

As part of a special industry session at IJCAI-ECAI 2022, the 2022 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence was presented to the team behind Sony's Gran Turismo Sophy project. This project was developed by Sony AI, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Polyphony Digital. Gran Turismo (GT) Sophy is a collection of agents trained using reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to race in Gran Turismo, a hyper-realistic, physics-based automotive racing simulator. The GT Sophy team developed novel, state-of-the-art RL methods for this purpose. Racing against some of the world's best e-sports drivers, GT Sophy has not only performed at world-class levels, it also won a team event in October 2021 by an impressive margin.