Building AI Speeders with Machine Learning in Star Wars Outlaws | AI and Games #80

AI and Games is a fan-funded show, and you can support our work by visiting: http://www.aiandgames.com Star Wars Outlaws by @UbisoftMassiveEntertainment uses traditional game AI techniques for the non-player characters that appear in the game world. But when they jump on a speeder bike, everything changes. We dig into how Massive Entertainment's AI team collaborated with the @Ubisoft internal technology group to build a machine learning pipeline for controlling the speeders using neural networks inspired by work developed at @ubisoftlaforge7026 . Read this episode (with screenshots and video clips) on our website: https://www.aiandgames.com/p/how-speeders-in-star-wars-outlaws This episode is based on the talk by Colin Gaudreau and Andreas Lasses presented at the Game AI Summit for GDC 2025. https://gdcvault.com/play/1035556/Game-AI-Summit-No-Brakes As mentioned, Ubisoft's ML tools have also been used in the likes of For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege, check out those talks as well: https://gdcvault.com/play/1035522/Streamlining-Bot-Development-in-For https://gdcvault.com/play/1035224/Machine-Learning-Summit-Rainbow-Six For those interested in learning about SmartDrive's RL algorithm - Soft Actor Critic - here's some relevant links: https://medium.com/intro-to-artificial-intelligence/soft-actor-critic-reinforcement-learning-algorithm-1934a2c3087f https://medium.com/data-science/soft-actor-critic-demystified-b8427df61665 -- [00:00] Introduction [03:30] Defining the Problem [05:35] Training an ML Speeder [10:10] Hitting the Gym [13:31] Learning Through Reward [15:53] Adjusting to Change [18:49] Reflections [20:54] Closing -- Writer and Narrator: Tommy Thompson Editing and Production Support: Shraddha Gupta AI and Games Logos: Andy Carolan Theme Music: Ben Ridge -- 'AI and Games' is a YouTube series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games. Check out all of our content: Website and Newsletter: http://www.aiandgames.com AI an