Sony’s race to up its game sees AI beating humans at Gran Turismo

The company has created an AI agent which it trained to race from scratch to superhuman level in about two weeks

10 February 2022 - 22:52 By Supantha Mukherjee

Sony has created an artificial intelligence (AI) agent called Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy) that can beat the world’s best drivers of the PlayStation racing simulation game Gran Turismo, it said on Wednesday...

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