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The games industry plays host to a colourful cast of diverse individuals, from artists and coders to narrative designers and studio heads. The skills to pull off these roles, however, are complex and ...

Google's DeepMind AI division has already built machines that can wreck you in StarCraft II and predict millions of protein structures, but now it's taking on an even harder task: writing coherent ...