Google is training an AI to play video games — why this could be problematic

Computer-controlled video game characters aren't anything new. Non-playable characters or NPCs are longtime staples of gaming. However, Google's AI research lab, DeepMind, has announced work on something distinct and new in computer-controlled gameplay: SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent.Tweet may have been deletedUnlike NPCs, Google DeepMind's AI-controlled gaming companion isn't programmed into a specific game to act a certain way or respond to certain human-pro