Arthur Szlam and colleagues at Facebook Research have begun work on an AI assistant that can learn from its interactions with humans and then perform a wide range of tasks on request. The more it learns the more it can do. The team has chosen Minecraft, the best-selling 3D sandbox video game, as its medium to develop this new AI.
"Instead of superhuman performance on a single difficult task, we are interested in competency across a large number of simpler tasks, specified by humans," the team said according the the MIT Technology Review. The video game environment allows the AI to interact with countless human users, creating a feedback loop of heightened performance and learning.
The team's hope is to eventually create a self-improving AI that does not need to be "trained" by a human.
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it's seems hopelessly recursive to train AI to play video games, and hope that will lead to useful advances in human-machine interaction.
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