Mattel announced the launch on October 2 of the first board game with artificial intelligence: Pictionary. In this new version, players will work together as a team against the AI, which will have to guess what they have drawn.
The next few years will undeniably be marked by artificial intelligence and every day reminds us of this a little more. With more than half of the population now highly suspicious of this technology, brands and companies around the world continue to implement it in their products and services. Until, sometimes, obtaining somewhat unexpected results.
It’s not too difficult to imagine, for example, that you didn’t think you’d one day see a board game based on artificial intelligence. Let us also point out that we are talking here about a board game, and not a video game. However, it is indeed the new project from Mattel, a pioneer in the field, which has just announced the launch of a brand new version of its famous Pictionary. You will have understood, one of the players will not be made of flesh and blood.
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The great novelty of this new edition is therefore the actual progress of a game. Rather than playing against each other, players now team up against artificial intelligence. Just like a traditional game, participants receive a card with a clue, which they then have to draw on their own board. The sketch is then analyzed by AI on a smartphone, which will have to guess what it is.
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The goal of the game is to predict whether or not the AI will be able to identify the drawing. If you find your neighbor’s work too approximate for the AI to understand what it is about and it is indeed wrong, you win the game — and vice versa. This new edition will be available on October 2 for $25. It will be delivered with 4 signs, pencils and a smartphone stand. We do not yet know whether it will be marketed in France or not.