Another month, another revolutionary generative AI development that will apparently fundamentally alter how an entire industry operates. This time tech giant Microsoft has created a "gameplay ideation" tool, Muse, which it calls the world's first Wham, or World and Human Action Model. Microsoft claims that Muse will speed up the lengthy and expensive process of game development by allowing designers to play around with AI-generated gameplay videos to see what works. Muse is trained on gameplay data from UK studio Ninja Theory's game Bleeding Edge. It has absorbed tens of thousands of hours of people's real gameplay, both footage and controller inputs.

Microsoft has announced a breakthrough that could lead to the most powerful quantum computers of all time. They created a new chip, called'Majorana 1,' which is powered by a new state of matter called a topological state. This phase of matter is not characterized by the traditional physical properties that define a solid, liquid or gas. Instead, it's defined by its topological properties -- how the material's wavefunctions behave and connect across space. This topological state is created by the chip's topoconductor, a first-of-its-kind material that produces fundamental units of information that serve as the building blocks for quantum computers.

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Microsoft's artificial intelligence technology, it turns out, is a whiz at playing Ms. Pac-Man, the 1980's-era video game. The tech giant's computers achieved a perfect score of 990,900, surpassing the existing (human held) record of 266,360. To score points, players must maneuver Ms. Pac-Man around a maze, avoiding "ghosts" that could knock her out or confronting the ghosts head on after eating an energy pellet that makes her temporarily invincible. Yes it sounds silly, but it's also addictive. Related: In Poker, It's Man vs. Machine, and the Machine Is Winning Researchers at Maluuba, the Montreal-based AI startup Microsoft (msft) acquired early this year, split up the technology it used to play the game among more than 150 different artificial intelligence software agents.

Ever wanted to develop your own artificially-intelligent programs? Microsoft is empowering everyone with the capability to create huge, intelligent data-processing systems with the release of the Cognitive Toolkit. The Cognitive Toolkit--previously known as CNTK--is a superfast deep-learning toolkit that brings commercial-grade quality and processing accuracy together with programming languages and algorithms you already use. It's not just for developers with a farm of servers and GPUs, though--hobbyists and modest users can be equally competitive because the Toolkit is flexible enough to run on a single laptop. Developers can also integrate into the Toolkit their own Python or C code.