{"id":37106,"date":"2011-07-17T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/computer-learns-to-take-over-virtual-worlds-by-doing-what-most-of-us-don%e2%80%99t-reading-the-manual-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-07-17T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:46:04","slug":"computer-learns-to-take-over-virtual-worlds-by-doing-what-most-of-us-don%e2%80%99t-reading-the-manual-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/computer-learns-to-take-over-virtual-worlds-by-doing-what-most-of-us-don%e2%80%99t-reading-the-manual-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Computer Learns to Take Over Virtual Worlds by Doing What Most of Us Don\u2019t: Reading the Manual | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spacingScreenshot of Civilization IV<\/em>, a later version
of the game that MIT’s computer played.<\/p>

What’s the News:<\/strong> Many video gamers scoff at the idea of actually reading the instruction manual for a game. But a manual can not only teach you how to play a game, it can also give you the basics of language—that is, if you’re a machine-learning<\/a> computer. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab<\/a> have now designed a computer system that can learn the meaning of certain words<\/a> by playing complex games like Civilization II<\/a><\/em> and comparing on-screen information to the game’s instruction manual.<\/p>

How the Heck: <\/strong><\/p>

The researchers, lead by computer scientist Regina Barzilay, began by giving their machine-learning system very basic knowledge about Civilization II<\/em>, such as the various actions it can take (moving the cursor, clicking, etc.). The computer also had access to the words and other information that popped up on-screen—though it didn’t understand what the text and objects meant—and it knew when it won or lost ...<\/p>

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Screenshot of Civilization IV, a later versionof the game that MIT’s computer played.What’s the News: Many video gamers scoff at the idea of actually reading the instruction manual for a game. But a manual can not only teach you how … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}