AI bots that beat humans in multi-player game developed

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-enabled machine that can beat human players in a tricky online multiplayer game where player roles and motives are kept secret, says a study. It was presented at International Conference on Information Systems. The machine, called'DeepRole', is the first gaming bot that can win online multiplayer games in which the participants' team allegiances are initially unclear, according the study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. The bot is designed with novel "deductive reasoning" added into an AI algorithm commonly used for playing poker. This helps it reason about partially observable actions, to determine the probability that a given player is a teammate or opponent.