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NeurIPS 2021 NetHack Challenge website

June 9th, 2021 Real time strategy, role playing and building games have become fertile training grounds for cutting edge artificial intelligence systems in recent years with digital competitors easily besting their human opponents in everything from StarCraft II and Dota 2 to Minecraft and Go. Now, Facebook is asking for the AI community’s help in bringing down NetHack — one of the most notoriously difficult titles in gaming history — and maybe help computers learn to simulate instance...

Decades-old ASCII adventure NetHack may hint at the future of AI Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, Go, Atari games and more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to take on a different kind of game: the notoriously difficult and infinitely complex NetHack. “We wanted to construct what we think is the most accessible ‘grand challenge’ with this game. It won’t solve AI, but it will unlock pathways towards better AI,�...

The game could make for a great reinforcement learning tool for AI while having an incredibly low computational overhead.

(Photo : Pixabay/geralt) Facebook NetHack Facebook announced on June 9 that it wants to challenge NetHack and is looking for an AI to assist them. The social media giant is launching a competition at the NeurlPS 2021 AI conference in Sydney, Australia. Facebook stated that NetHack, an 80s video game with simple visuals considered among the most difficult games in the world, can enable data scientists to benchmark state-of-the-art AI methods in a complex environment without the need to run exper...