Machine Learning News

Player Unknown’s BattleGrounds has always been a game where cheating has been extremely prominent. Indeed, the game has also made multiple headlines for banning even professional players who cheat in their games. However, the problem has never really gone away ever since the game was in beta. Cheaters continued to find new methods to exploit holes in the game’s implementation of anti-cheat and were caught in the next wave of bans, but more and more just kept coming. Now, the company has adopted artificial intelligence to combat cheaters, bringing across a level of security that has not been seen in the game before. In a recent blog post, the anti-cheat team of PUBG detailed the use of machine learning to target cheaters in their games. They also detailed the various reinforcements they have made in the past, and the various solutions they used to do. Reportedly, the main methods used by cheaters to hack the game include DLL and code injection, kernel driver attacks, and SS

IBM  has developed a Machine Learning algorithm which shows promise for detecting and slowing the progress of Alzheimer’s disease . Alzheimer’s is a brutal disease not just for sufferers, but their loved ones too. The disease currently has no cure and causes an increasing loss of memory, confusion, and difficulty completing once familiar tasks. Ben Goudey, Staff Researcher of the Genomics Research Team at IBM Research, wrote "At IBM Research, our mission is to use AI and technology to understand how to help clinicians better detect and ultimately prevent these diseases in their early stages."  IBM Australia published a paper today providing details of how machine learning and AI can be used to predict the severity of the disease and help to slow its progression. Early diagnosis helps to prepare the sufferer and their loved ones as much as possible before degeneration takes hold. Official diagnosis also helps to make the patient available for medical trials wi