and today we’ve found out a little more about the racing experience itself. A new racing artificial intelligence named Sophy will drive against players and she sounds unbelievably fast.
We heard just a few days ago that Sony and Polyphony Digital had been working on some sort of AI but no other details were released at the time. Now we know exactly what that was all about and it comes down to creating the most competitive and realistic artificially intelligent racing driver ever featured in a Gran Turismo title.
Sony AI and Polyphony call her Sophy and she’s the result of countless hours of testing and machine learning sessions. Last July she had been deemed too fast for the team to continue testing their skills against her so they brought in four of the fastestplayers on the globe to take her on. Over the course of three races, Sophy took the top spot twice but as the team looked further down the standings they realized that the human team actually won more points than all of the Sophy AI drivers had.
Thankfully, Polyphony says that she won’t just be out there crushing players in each race. ” GT Sophy will always understand the surrounding environment and the conditions, and that includes the level of the players, too,” said the creator of Gran Turismo, Kazunori Yamauchi. We can’t wait to experience it ourselves.