Researchers Are Training AI to Survive In This MMO

Neural MMO is a new massively multiplayer online game, but humans aren't invited--only artificial intelligence can play. In the game, AI agents spawn into an open world and need to gather resources like food and water to survive. Along the way, they'll encounter rival agents which they can avoid or fight for dominance. It's a harsh world, designed by its creators to prompt the AI agents to develop strategies that satisfy a task that is both open-ended and highly complex: survival over a lifetime. OpenAI researchers Joseph Suarez, Yilun Du, Phillip Isola, and Igor Mordatch designed Neural MMO and released its code via GitHub on Monday.