Perhaps it would be more fun to build a VW that was designed to be driven as easily by computational agents as [human] biological ones.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:36 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/303/2997756-fc0b9b09 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/ > member/?& > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- 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
