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Fenris CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said in an open letter addressed to players that “ EVE is one
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“As a gamer and games producer, I’ve long admired EVE,” Google DeepMind Director Alexandre Moufarek said in a statement.
Key facts
- Pearl Abyss paid $225 million for the EVE Online maker six years ago, meaning the recent $120 million sale represents a significant decline in value for the company
- The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Onlin e developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves out from their former owners at South Korean
- The newly independent Fenris Creations said that “differences in operating context, current strategic focus, and long-term priorities” were among the reasons for the joint decision to part ways
- Now that it’s free from Pearl Abyss, Fenris says it will be able to make long-term strategic decisions similar to those it made before its 2018 purchase
Summary
Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Onlin e developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves out from their former owners at South Korean publisher Pearl Abyss (Crimson Desert ). In today’s announcement, Fenris and DeepMind said that EVE Online presents “a uniquely rich environment for study,” especially when it comes to developing AI systems that use “long-horizon planning, memory, and continual learning.” DeepMind says it will conduct controlled experiments on its models in a specially designed offline version of the game running on a local server, without directly impacting the experience for online players.
Fenris CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said in an open letter addressed to players that “ EVE is one of the few environments where questions about intelligence can be explored inside something that already behaves like a living world.” Studying EVE will allow Google DeepMind’s models to explore “difficult problems, long timelines strange possibilities,” he added.