Google DeepMind's AI is becoming adept at team eSports

Google DeepMind has proved pretty effective at mastering various games over the years. It is officially the finest player of Go in the world after beating the sitting human world champion and has since turned its figurative hand to Starcraft 2, while also proving adept at guessing when patients are going to die. It truly is a jack of all trades. The problem is that DeepMind is very much a lone wolf. It works alone and doesn't necessarily know how to play nice with humans – or indeed other AIs. You might not consider the best remedy for this to be arming DeepMind, but the good news is that the weapons and battlefield are purely virtual: the AI has learned how to play Quake III's Capture the Flag multiplayer mode and, predictably, has got to the point where it can teach humans a thing or two.