Hey Google, kill that sucker.
Google is developing a DeepMind based AI that could end up being the ultimate virtual co-op buddy. It’s not some play-to-win opponent or super-bot, but a general, instructible game-playing AI agent.
Google presented a research article (via @rowancheung) on what it calls a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA). The general idea is that it’s a learning AI that can follow verbal instructions and understand the virtual world it’s in. Rather than functioning as a hard-coded AI opponent or bot we’ve grown accustomed to over decades, Google’s SIMA promises to a more natural and human-like gaming companion.
Google partnered with eight game studios to test its SIMA model in games including Valheim, Goat Simulator 3 and No Man’s Sky. These are open-world games chosen to teach SIMA to learn general gaming skills. The current version of SIMA is capable of performing around 600 basic skills, including navigation, object interaction and menu use.
