'Novel AI bot can beat humans in multiplayer games'

Researchers at MIT have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based bot which they say can beat human players in tricky online multiplayer games where player roles and motives are kept secret.

In recent years, many gaming bots have been built to keep up with human players.

This year, a team from Carnegie Mellon University in the US developed the world's first bot that can beat professionals in a multiplayer game.

However, in these games, the bot knows its opponents and teammates from the start, the researchers said.

DeepRole is the first bot that can win online multiplayer games in which the participants' team allegiances are initially unclear, according to the researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.

The researchers pitted DeepRole against human players in more than 4,000 rounds of the online game "The Resistance: Avalon."