An ode to Portal 2’s incredible tutorial joke

Portal 2 ’s very best gag comes at the start of the game, in its tutorial stages, and spins Portal ’s game-design satire into ...
MarketWatch

What SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab and others have in store for 2026

The $600 billion space sector should keep getting bigger next year as startups and established companies alike ramp up their efforts. Elon Musk and his SpaceX are leading that charge. The potential ...
GitHub

AAAI-23 Lab for Innovative Uses of Synthetic Data

Welcome to the AAAI-23 Lab for Innovative Uses of Synthetic Data! In this repository you will find materials required to complete the Lab. The Lab will start on Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 14:00 EST.
GitHub

SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) show excellent performance but are compute- and memory-intensive. Quantization can reduce memory and accelerate inference. However, for LLMs beyond 100 billion parameters, ...
Polygon

Sony patented AI-generated video game tutorials this year, and it sounds like a nightmare

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...
IEEE

Seamless Tutorial: Contextual State Transition Generation based on Player Internal Knowledge

Abstract: In the domain of game artificial intelligence, tutorial systems have seen limited advancement despite their critical role in onboarding players. Traditional tutorials often neglect ...
automaton-media

“Players hate them, and they won’t even try to look for them until they absolutely have to.” Japanese game developers discuss the pitfalls of tutorials

“Itchie”, a Japanese programmer and producer who used to work at game companies like Square and SNK, recently took to X to reflect on a fallacy that tripped him up earlier in his career as a developer ...