Grand Theft Auto V might be a fun anarchy simulator, but it’s proving to have some practical uses in the real world, too. Some AI developers are using it to prototype their self-driving car algorithms ...

Researchers and inventors around the world are thinking of ways to make self-driving cars as smart as humans when it comes to particular situations. A project called Deep Drive was created in the form ...

You probably know Grand Theft Auto V isn't the kind of video game that encourages adherence to posted speed limits. Actually I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play without committing multiple virtual ...

MIT Technology Review reports that a team of researchers at Intel Labs and Darmstadt University in Germany is using GTA V as the basis for a machine learning program that could lead to safer, better ...

While you might be playing GTA to remorselessly run over people for fun, researchers are now using the popular game to train computers how to better navigate self-driving cars in the real world.

The DeepDrive project has made it possible to use Grand Theft Auto to train self-driving cars for some time now. But today, the work is being integrated and open-sourced with OpenAI’s Universe. The ...