League of Legends
Taming the Trolls: How League of Legends Intends to Wipe Out Cyberbullying for Good
Over the past several years, Riot Games, which produces the immensely popular League of Legends, has been experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics tools to find the online trolls and make their games more sportsmanlike. "We used to think that online gaming and toxic behavior went hand in hand," explains Jeffrey Lin, lead game designer of social systems at Riot Games. "First, put the tools in the hands of the community and second, build machine learning systems that leverage the scale of data--contributed from the community through reports--to combat the problem." To learn how Big Data, automation and artificial intelligence will shape the future, download the HPE white paper "Big Data in 2016."