The company built GT Sophy to master the game 'Gran Turismo,' but it may help the development of real self-driving cars.
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driver must understand how to beat other drivers without incurring penalties for unfair play, Wurman says GT Sophy points the way to robots that learn how to interact with humans in more sophisticated social settings. “With board games, you have a long time to decide what you're going to do between each move,” Wurman says. “Real-time interaction is what we do every day.”
The GT Sophy project also points to potential changes in game design. In-game characters typically follow simple rules. AI players that learn for themselves could be far more lifelike and engaging to play against and alongside.and a real-life race car driver, says GT Sophy’s ability to drive without incurring penalties is perhaps most impressive.
“Sophy takes some racing lines that a human driver would never think of,” he says. “I think a lot of the textbooks regarding driving skills will be rewritten.” Updated, 2-9-22, 3:40pm ET: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Avinash Balachandran, senior manager for Human Centric Driving Research at the Toyota Research Institute.
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