FYI, we're not working with Minecraft directly, though we have a Unity3D-based game world that uses some plug-ins to achieve "Minecraft-like" functionality...
In general, I think Minecraft is a good playground for early-stage AGI efforts.... Of course, one could make a Minecraft-oriented narrow AI fairly easily, but if one's goal is AGI rather than Minecraft, the Minecraft setting can be used to good effect... -- Ben G On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been playing an unhealthy amount of Minecraft the last few days and > have been poking around with the various mod kits to figure out whether it > would be possible to attempt to tie an external AI package into the villager > "mob". > > [ I am aware of the GOERTZEL's efforts along these lines...] > > I think a possible low-priority project for ZS would be to have an ongoing > artificial life/demo land for Minecraft bots. > > What would need to happen is that you would need to have a way to hook into > all of the inputs and outputs of Minecraft, including audio. You would have > to nerf the user interface so it is impossible to change settings or tamper > with save files, indeed it will need to be locked to only be able to connect > to one single server. I don't know whether this is possible using X11 hooks > or whether I'd have to dig into the low level drivers Minecraft uses. -- it > would have to be frame-sync'd with Minecraft's rendering engine. > > Then, with exactly the same user interface a human player would get, the AI > bots would have to compete to survive. The AIs would have to compete with > each other on a number of metrics of performance. The game rules would be > set to survival mode at a low difficulty level and then get harder over time > as the bots improve. The AIs would be set up to spawn in existing villages, > the automatically generated village would have to be manually "repaired" to > the point of being operable -- ie all buildings accessible, all roads > passable, etc... Each week the server's statistics would be collected and > published as a report on the state of AI. > > -- > To anyone it may concern, I just retired a CISCO RV220W router from my > network because it was crashing constantly and returned a much older > Netgear WGR614 V7 to service. I feel obliged to expend effort to > bad-mouth the RV220W and its brand at this point. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
