SciFriday: Training AIs to Beat Humans (and Each Other) With Online Video Games

April 26, 2019

A team of AI “players” has been steamrolling world-class human gamers at a popular online game called Dota 2. We discuss what the artificial intelligences might be learning from a computer game that combines strategy, war, and a mashup of pagan religions.

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great!

April 30, 2017

Who or what is Babylon the Great? After 2,000 years that’s still a mystery.

Brian Godawa – Rise of the Beast

March 21, 2017

MANY OF us take a futurist view of end times prophecy as a given (including your host), but it ain’t necessarily so. Brian Godawa joins us to discuss his new novel, Tyrant: Rise of the Beast, a fictional account of the events behind the writing of the Book of Revelation.

Sacrifice to ‘the Beast’ in Houston

March 6, 2017

Two members of the drug gang MS-13 are on trial in Houston for allegedly killing a teen girl as a “soul sacrifice” to “the Beast.”

Weapon of Mass Distraction

Official website of Derek P. Gilbert

The Beast

SciFriday: Training AIs to Beat Humans (and Each Other) With Online Video Games

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great!

Brian Godawa – Rise of the Beast

Sacrifice to ‘the Beast’ in Houston