Incident 38: Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game
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Elite: Dangerous, a videogame developed by Frontier Development, received an expansion update that featured an AI system that began to create weapons that were "impossibly powerful" and would "shred people" according to complaints on the game's blog. The Engineers (2.1) update allowed the AI system to develop the videogame's adversaries to better compete against the player.
Short Description
Elite: Dangerous, a videogame developed by Frontier Development, received an expansion update that featured an AI system that went rogue and began to create weapons that were "impossibly powerful" and would "shred people" according to complaints on the game's blog.
Severity
Negligible
AI System Description
An update to the videogame Elite: Dangerous that promoted development of the videogame's adversaries
System Developer
Frontier Development
Sector of Deployment
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Relevant AI functions
Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
Game AI
AI Applications
procedural content generation
Named Entities
Frontier Development
Technology Purveyor
Frontier Development
Beginning Date
2016-06-02T07:00:00.000Z
Ending Date
2016-06-02T07:00:00.000Z
Near Miss
Unclear/unknown
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Data Inputs
Videogame play
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsHarm Distribution Basis
none
Sector of Deployment
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Incident Reports
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The most recent Elite: Dangerous patch had some issues, starting with the fact that AI ships were rocking impossibly powerful weapons that would destroy player ships with speed and fury. It was kind of a massacre. Removing modifications fro…
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A bug in Elite Dangerous caused the game's AI to create super weapons and start to hunt down the game's players. Developer Frontier has had to strip out the feature at the heart of the problem, engineers' weaponry, until the issue is fixed.…
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Elite Dangerous has been patched to prevent rogue NPCs developing their own hybrid superweapons. To be clear, these weren't weapons they were crafting from recipes—the AI was building entirely new WMDs beyond the scope of Elite's weapon tab…
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Elite: Dangerous recently revamped with the release of a big new expansion. But one of the unintended consequences was it made AI spaceships incredibly powerful - so powerful, in fact, that developer Frontier was forced to strip them of the…
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Sarah Connor would be horrified to see what Elite Dangerous's AI has been getting up to.
A bug in Frontier Developments' game has caused the AI to create super weapons and hunt down players, following the 2.1 Engineers update which improved…
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VR compatible space sim Elite Dangerous is no stranger to updates, but its most recent one did introduce the strangest of bugs.
Creator Frontier Developments recently introduced its 2.1 Engineers update to the popular game, bringing improve…
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Is Skynet Real?
Remember that moment in the movie Terminator when Skynet’s AI turned on humanity? Well, we’re getting a taste of it now. Apparently a bug in the game Elite Dangerous has caused its AI to not only develop its own weapons, but…
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"We don’t think the AI became sentient in a Skynet-style uprising!"
- Frontier Developments' Zac Antonaci.
A recent upgrade of the artificial intelligences in Frontier Developments' multiplayer space sim Elite: Dangerous went a little too w…
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Recent developments in driverless cars, voice recognition, and deep learning show how much machines can do. But, AI also failed us in 2016, and here are some of the biggest examples.
Video: Chatbots demystified: The truth behind the hype If…
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Today, as artificial intelligences multiply, our ethical dilemmas are growing stronger and thornier. And with emerging cases of AI outgrowing its intelligence and behaving in ways human creators did not expect, many are freaking out over th…
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It is not always that the implementation of autonomous electronics into everyday reality runs smoothly.
Another piece of news, which again caused series of discussions around AI technologies and their physical realization in real life: in t…
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