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Minecraft Diamond Challenge Leaves AI Creators Stuck
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped By Sam Shead Technology reporter
12 December 2019
Most Minecraft players can find the most important diamonds in a matter of minutes. However, it's much more difficult to develop artificial intelligence to perform this task.
Microsoft, a Minecraft publisher, and other organizations challenged coders to design AI agents that could locate the sought-after gems.
Most people can master it in their first session.
Of the 660 entries, only one was up to the task.
83hh
The results of the MineRL - which is pronounced mineral-related competition is scheduled to be announced informally on Saturday at the NeurIPS AI conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The objective was to determine whether the issue could be solved without requiring massive amounts of computing power.
Despite the lack of any winners, one of the organisers said she was still "hugely amazed" by some of the participants.
Katja Hofmann, the principal researcher at Microsoft Research, stated that "the task we set was extremely difficult." "Finding a Minecraft diamond involves a number of steps, from cutting down trees to making tools to exploring caves to actually finding a gem.
"While no submitted agent has solved the issue completely, they have made a number of steps forward and made many of the tools needed to accomplish the task."
Mining diamonds
Minecraft has become wildly popular since it was released in 2011.
More than 180 million copies of the open-world game have been sold, and the game has more than 112 million monthly active players.
Diamond is one of the most important resources in Minecraft as it can be used to build strong armour and powerful weapons.
To obtain the precious gemstone However, a person must go through a few other steps.
Jules Portelly, a Minecraft player, said that it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes to earn your first diamonds, if you're comfortable playing the game.
The players were allowed to make use of a single graphics processing unit (GPU) and four days of time to train. To put it in perspective, AI systems usually need months or years of game time to master titles like StarCraft II.
To help train their systems, a small Minecraft dataset of 60 million frames of player data was made available to entrants.
"At the start of every episode they spawned in a procedurally-generated Minecraft world," explained Dr Hofmann.
"So they really had to understand the concept of finding resources, making tools and finding diamonds."
Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments
DeepMind AI achieves Grandmaster status at Starcraft 2
AI assistant to help Minecraft players
The organizers wanted coders to create programs that could be learned through imitation, a technique called "imitation learning".
This is where you try to make AI agents to take the best method of solving a problem by making them imitate humans or other software.
This is in contrast to "reinforcement learning" in which an agent is trained to determine the best solution by trial and error.
All AI
Research has demonstrated that reinforcement learning can produce superior results.
DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero program, for instance beat an earlier effort by the research center that utilized reinforcement learning and the analysis of data labelled from human behavior to teach the game of Go.
However, this "pure" method usually requires much more computing power, making it too expensive for researchers who are not large organizations or government agencies.
William Guss, a Carnegie Mellon University PhD student, was the principal organizer of the competition. He stated that the competition's purpose was to show that "throwing massive computation at problems isn't always the right way to push the boundaries of technology as a field."
He added, "It works against democratising access to these systems of reinforcement learning, and leaves the ability for agents to train in complex environments to large corporations that have vast areas of computing."
However, the final outcome could reveal the advantages these organizations with good funding have.
Minecraft graphics to look more real
19 August 2019
Minecraft player is sacked for five years
29 April 2019
Website: https://83hh.com/
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped By Sam Shead Technology reporter
12 December 2019
Most Minecraft players can find the most important diamonds in a matter of minutes. However, it's much more difficult to develop artificial intelligence to perform this task.
Microsoft, a Minecraft publisher, and other organizations challenged coders to design AI agents that could locate the sought-after gems.
Most people can master it in their first session.
Of the 660 entries, only one was up to the task.
83hh
The results of the MineRL - which is pronounced mineral-related competition is scheduled to be announced informally on Saturday at the NeurIPS AI conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The objective was to determine whether the issue could be solved without requiring massive amounts of computing power.
Despite the lack of any winners, one of the organisers said she was still "hugely amazed" by some of the participants.
Katja Hofmann, the principal researcher at Microsoft Research, stated that "the task we set was extremely difficult." "Finding a Minecraft diamond involves a number of steps, from cutting down trees to making tools to exploring caves to actually finding a gem.
"While no submitted agent has solved the issue completely, they have made a number of steps forward and made many of the tools needed to accomplish the task."
Mining diamonds
Minecraft has become wildly popular since it was released in 2011.
More than 180 million copies of the open-world game have been sold, and the game has more than 112 million monthly active players.
Diamond is one of the most important resources in Minecraft as it can be used to build strong armour and powerful weapons.
To obtain the precious gemstone However, a person must go through a few other steps.
Jules Portelly, a Minecraft player, said that it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes to earn your first diamonds, if you're comfortable playing the game.
The players were allowed to make use of a single graphics processing unit (GPU) and four days of time to train. To put it in perspective, AI systems usually need months or years of game time to master titles like StarCraft II.
To help train their systems, a small Minecraft dataset of 60 million frames of player data was made available to entrants.
"At the start of every episode they spawned in a procedurally-generated Minecraft world," explained Dr Hofmann.
"So they really had to understand the concept of finding resources, making tools and finding diamonds."
Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments
DeepMind AI achieves Grandmaster status at Starcraft 2
AI assistant to help Minecraft players
The organizers wanted coders to create programs that could be learned through imitation, a technique called "imitation learning".
This is where you try to make AI agents to take the best method of solving a problem by making them imitate humans or other software.
This is in contrast to "reinforcement learning" in which an agent is trained to determine the best solution by trial and error.
All AI
Research has demonstrated that reinforcement learning can produce superior results.
DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero program, for instance beat an earlier effort by the research center that utilized reinforcement learning and the analysis of data labelled from human behavior to teach the game of Go.
However, this "pure" method usually requires much more computing power, making it too expensive for researchers who are not large organizations or government agencies.
William Guss, a Carnegie Mellon University PhD student, was the principal organizer of the competition. He stated that the competition's purpose was to show that "throwing massive computation at problems isn't always the right way to push the boundaries of technology as a field."
He added, "It works against democratising access to these systems of reinforcement learning, and leaves the ability for agents to train in complex environments to large corporations that have vast areas of computing."
However, the final outcome could reveal the advantages these organizations with good funding have.
Minecraft graphics to look more real
19 August 2019
Minecraft player is sacked for five years
29 April 2019
Website: https://83hh.com/
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