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Google's new Game Arena will allow models to compete in games head-to-head.
You can tune in to the Game Arena at 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesday.
The goal is to open the door to potential new business applications.
As artificial intelligence evolves, it's becoming increasingly difficult to accurately measure the performance of individual models.
To that end, Google unveiled on Tuesday the Game Arena, an open-source platform in which AI models compete in a variety of strategic games to provide "a verifiable, and dynamic measure of their capabilities," as the company wrote in a blog post.
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The new Game Arena is hosted in Kaggle, another Google-owned platform in which machine learning researchers can share datasets and compete with one another to complete various challenges.
This comes as researchers have been working on new kinds of tests to measure the capabilities of AI models as the field inches closer to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, an as-yet theoretical system that (as it's commonly defined) can match the human brain in any cognitive task.
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