Gran Turismo Sophy: Sony Announces AI That Can Compete With The Best GT Sport Drivers In The World

This week, Sony revealed that they had developed an AI to compete with the best GT Sport drivers in the world. The announcement has sparked a heated debate among gamers and pro-gamers alike.

Sony has announced the Sophy AI, which is a computer system that can compete with the best GT Sport drivers in the world. The AI will be able to learn from its mistakes and improve its performance over time.

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According to a new development by the experts at Sony AI, Polyphony Digital, and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s cloud gaming team, artificial intelligence isn’t just going to take people’s jobs; it’s also going to beat everyone at Gran Turismo according to a new development by the experts at Sony AI, Polyphony Digital, and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s cloud gaming team, who today introduced Gran Turismo Sophy, a new AI that was trained to compete with the best of the best in PlayStation’ Sophy began off as something that couldn’t even drive in a straight line but subsequently grew into a good driver owing to unique reinforcement learning methods, according to an executive. Sophy not only bested human players in a tournament held in October 2021, but she also learned to react to serious driving faults that might easily lose the AI a race.

Gran Turismo Sophy: Teaching AI to Race Like a Champion (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

The First and Only True Test

Gran Turismo Sophy started large-scale training in January 2021, and after competing against members of the Polyphony Digital team and elite GT drivers, the game was ready for its first significant test.
In timed trials, racers competed alone on courses while recording their times. Gran Turismo Sophy raced alone on the same tracks as the racers and beat their times.
Playing one-on-one with players, on the other hand, was a different task. When sharing the track with other drivers in a competitive team race, Gran Turismo Sophy didn’t do so well.

Infrastructure for Training on a Large Scale

Gran Turismo Sophy was assessed with positive or negative feedback depending on various inputs during reinforcement training. The speed of the vehicle, the direction in which the wheels are pointing, the curvature of the track, and other factors were all considered.
Gran Turismo Sophy reproduced itself and took on numerous distinct situations at the same time, mirroring how people spend an estimated 10,000+ hours to become excellent at a skill. This required a significant amount of computational power, which Sony Interactive Entertainment contributed.

Getting Back on Track

The second racing day came on October 21, 2021, with expectations that Gran Turismo Sophy would win all of the competitions, including the team race.
It not only dominated across the board, but the team also saw it adapt to a difficult circumstance when it suffered a wipeout early in the third race and still finished first.
It took first and second place in all three races, and outscored the humans by double digits in the team competition.