The relationship between Sam Altman and Elon Musk goes back to the early days of OpenAI--then, a non-profit research lab. But now, the two men find themselves in a very public feud over the billion dollar AI company. Today on the show, we catalogue their friendship-turned-feud and how the company that started it all still remains core to their beef. Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com. You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link.

The Instruction-Driven Game Engine (IDGE) project aims to democratize game development by enabling a large language model (LLM) to follow free-form game rules and autonomously generate game-play processes. The IDGE allows users to create games by issuing simple natural language instructions, which significantly lowers the barrier for game development. We approach the learning process for IDGEs as a Next State Prediction task, wherein the model autoregressively predicts in-game states given player actions. It is a challenging task because the computation of in-game states must be precise; otherwise, slight errors could disrupt the game-play. To address this, we train the IDGE in a curriculum manner that progressively increases the model's exposure to complex scenarios. Our initial progress lies in developing an IDGE for Poker, a universally cherished card game. The engine we've designed not only supports a wide range of poker variants but also allows for high customization of rules through natural language inputs. Furthermore, it also favors rapid prototyping of new games from minimal samples, proposing an innovative paradigm in game development that relies on minimal prompt and data engineering. This work lays the groundwork for future advancements in instruction-driven game creation, potentially transforming how games are designed and played.

You can basically get these things to say whatever kind of messed up thing you want,

Siri is known to cut people off midsentence, but there's away to make Siri listen longer. CyberGuy shows you how to customize the wait time. So, you've got some money to invest, and you're mulling over your options, right? That's right, folks, the computer wizards have been busy, and they've conjured up a whopper: Artificial Intelligence (AI) investment platforms. It feels like we've been hurled into a sci-fi saga where the heroes and heroines don't carry lightsabers but wield algorithms and datasets.

In a year where Kate Bush and Metallica re-entered the charts, it's fitting that 2022's most intriguing game so far has been plucked from the past. Directed by Takashi Tokita of Chrono Trigger fame, for decades Live a Live appeared destined to remain the RPG that time forgot. Its initial Japanese release on the Super Famicom (SNES) in 1994 was a commercial flop, ensuring it never left its homeland – until now. Resurrected for Nintendo's fittingly anachronistic current console, the Switch, this eyebrow-raising relic has been reanimated using Square Enix's gorgeous 2D-HD engine, a graphical style that melds rich high-definition backgrounds with retro 16-bit sprites. The results are glorious, injecting once-flat environments with a playful, eye-catching charm that never quite loses its magic.

The push by the United States to send artillery to Ukraine aims to degrade Russian forces -- not only on the immediate battlefield but over the longer term, according to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and military experts. The United States, France, Czech Republic and other allies are sending scores of the long-range howitzers to help Ukraine blunt Russia's mounting offensive in the eastern Donbas region. Backed by better air defense, attack drones and Western intelligence, the allies hope that Kyiv will be able to destroy a large amount of Russia's firepower in the looming showdown. After returning from Kyiv, where he met Ukraine defense chiefs and President Volodymyr Zelensky, Austin told journalists in Poland early Monday that Washington's hopes are larger than that. Russia "has already lost a lot of military capability, and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability," Austin said.

India has banned 118 more Chinese apps in a stepped-up backlash over an increasingly bitter border showdown between the neighbours. India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Wednesday said the apps - including the mobile version of the popular video game PUBG and other services provided by China internet giant Tencent - promoted activities "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order". India and China have been embroiled in a series of deadly clashes and showdowns on their Himalayan border in recent weeks. In June, 20 Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand combat in the Ladakh region of the border. An Indian special forces member was killed in one of two incidents at the weekend.

The mission of the AlphaDogFight trials is "essentially pushing the potential for automated aerial conflicts and boosting the trust military personnel need to have in AI systems." It's a three-day showdown that starts Aug. 18 between tech teams picked from around the country, each vying for bragging rights when it comes to the ultimate dogfighting algorithm. However, those teams -- Aurora Flight Sciences, EpiSys Science, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems, Lockheed Martin, Perspecta Labs, PhysicsAI and SoarTech -- first need to test their wizardry against five artificial intelligence platforms created by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The second day involves round-robin competitions to determine the final four. Those winners square off against each other until a winner is determined.

Lengpudashi, the "Cold Poker Master," arrived in Hainan to face the top Texas Hold'Em players in China for a USD 290,000 winner-takes-all purse. His opponents were serious players -- Team Dragons was led by Yue (Alan) Du, a venture capitalist and amateur player who was the first Chinese mainlander to win a trophy at the World Series of Poker. But none of them was a match for Lengpudashi, an artificial intelligence bot developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The event, organized by former Greater China President of Google and venture capitalist Kai-fu Lee, followed anearlier showdown in January where Lengpudashi's older version Libratus beat four of the world's top poker professionals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unlike Google's AlphaGo's triumph over 18-time world champion Lee Sedol last year, there was not so much fanfare in this event.

The results are in for Fortnite's second Showdown event, this time for Blitz with a few rules changes Epic made in the wake of the first Solo Showdown. This time around you only had 25 games to prove your worth, and in addition to placing high, kills also gave you points as well, so aggressive play and finishing well is rewarded, like many players were requesting. Also what was different this time is that Epic separated the contest by region, crowning 5 winners and 500 prize winners, rather than 1 and 100. They reduced the individual list prize pool as a result, but it was essentially doubled overall, with far more winners earning V-bucks. So, did you win? Probably not, given that tens of millions of people play this game and only 500 are walking away with anything.