Arrr! Treasures in goats, Google, and games! The fearsome AI be learnin' to plunder in video games! Aye!
2024-03-28
Avast ye scurvy dogs! The scallywags at Google DeepMind have created a marvel of modern technology! A beastly AI system that can play video games like a landlubber and understand the tongue of the crew. Smart as a parrot and twice as clever! Arrrr!
Google has developed an artificial intelligence system that can play video games like a human and take orders from players and could eventually even have real-world implications down the line. The SIMA research team wrote in a Google DeepMind post earlier this month that "learning to play even one video game is a technical feat for an AI system, but learning to follow instructions in a variety of game settings could unlock more helpful AI agents for any environment." SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, plays alongside and learns like a human through image recognition and from native language commands.For now, the AI agent is only a research project meant to serve as a companion for human players that can carry out tasks. Google worked with eight game developers to help train and test SIMA, primarily on open-play environments like No Man’s Sky and Goat Simulator 3. The Google researchers eventually want the AI agent to adapt to games it’s never played without specific training.The ultimate goal is to build more general AI systems and agents that can understand and safely carry out a wide range of tasks in a way that is helpful to people online and in the real world. But for now, SIMA still has a long way to go before it's ready for basic video game play, only succeeding in one-third of its tasks in No Man’s Sky.