Ben Goertzel wrote: > Mike T, > > A fairly decent purely computational AGI test (suggested by Sam Adams > from IBM) would be the Video Game Test > > --- Learn to play a series of randomly chosen human videogames, based > only on interaction with the games themselves, and the goal of > maximizing score (or whatever the goal of each game is) > > Of course, this only works if the AGI designer has looked at, say, 1% or > fewer of existing videogames when building his system. It doesn't work > if the AGI designer has hired 1000000 programmers to write game-playing > AIs separately for each game, and then wired them together > > This is not a perfect test, but success on it would be rather compelling... > > We briefly discussed this along with the Woz coffee test and others in > our article on AGI in the recent issue of AI Magazine...
The issue with game tests is that most games require fairly advanced language understanding to understand the ramifications of a choice, for example. The game Deus Ex: Human Revolutions, for example, attempts to model very complex social interactions. The only series that can probably be played with minimal language understanding is probably the Legend of Zelda series. There are occasionally a few challenges where the rules are spelled out verbally, such as take this to location X within Y minutes without teleporting... But, in general, the game can be solved because the camera will generally show you where you need to go next or, failing that, you can just wander around until the plot advances... Another game that might be good for AI learning, though not quite general intelligence, is Katamari Damacy... The game is probably too simple for real problem-solving though beyond planning and path-finding. Making any of these games playable by a candidate AI program is an entirely separate engineering challenge. =\ -- E T F N H E D E D Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
