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Welcome to our class A.I. blog!

Here you will find non-artificially intelligent commentary about recent developments in artificial intelligence, by the students from CSC 320: Principles of Artificial Intelligence, from Spring Semester 2021-22 at Augustana College.

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Can AI replace humans in Competitive eSports?

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            One would never think that Elon Musk's OpenAI company, which created the most dangerous and complex text AI for generating convincing stories -  GPT3 , would try their hands on creating the most complicated 'bot-script' in the world for a real-time multiplayer online battle arena game:  Dota 2 .  Credit: Valve Corp  Dota 2 on Steam (steampowered.com)      Dota 2 is an RTS game (Real-time strategy) developed by Valve (All hail Gabe Newell!) and was released on July 9th, 2013, on Steam. Dota is a legitimate successor to the popular Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, which had huge fanbase back at that time. The main premise of the game is to destroy the enemy's base (Ancients) with teamwork and tactics. In a more detailed view, the game starts off with 2 teams (Dire and Radiant) picking Heroes, which have unique sets of abilities and characteristics that can be upgraded and enhanced over the course...
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Racing with AI: With Great Speed Comes Great Responsibility

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Auto racing has existed ever since the second car was built, and it’s become a staple of the sports landscape, from NASCAR and IndyCar here in the United States, to Formula 1 overseas. While motorsports are team sports, with numerous engineers, mechanics, and other personnel employed to work on each vehicle, the drivers are the stars of the show. They, more than anyone else involved, can spell the difference between victory and defeat. A simple lapse in judgment can lead to a horrifying incident. While motorsports have become incredibly safe in the modern era, these drivers still put life and limb on the line every time they strap in prior to a race.           Some, then, have wondered, “What if we took the driver out of the equation?”. The answer, necessarily, is self-driving race cars. Several racing series have emerged to make that happen. One, known as Roborace, has constructed a fleet of race cars that race themselves, as Craig Scarborough discusses in...
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Can A.I make (good) music?

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    In my opinion, this question also falls under the umbrella of “Can A.I be creative?” and since Paul has given a positive response to the question, I think it is worthwhile to look into what A.I’s creativity can do to music.       Earlier this year, a group of students used an open-source Generative Pre-trained Transformer GPT-2 created by OpenAI and TeleMelody to transform lyric to melody in an effort to generate a rock song. The model is first trained by using approximately 22,000 rock song lyrics recommended by Spotify. The song lyrics extracted also come with tags for each lyrical section and are broken into: intro, verse, chorus, and outro .      This is an example of a song generated by the GPT-2 model about happy day:       Then, they used Telemelody approach for lyric-to-melody. And the end result performed by Synthesizer V is as below: Bfenison & Linharri · Happy Day     I would not ...
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