The Animal-AI Olympics

We will be releasing a'playground', a simple simulation environment for intelligent agents based on the Unity platform3. This environment has basic physics rules and a set of objects such as food, walls, negative-reward zones, pushable blocks and more. The playground can be configured by the participants and they can spawn any combination of objects in preset or random positions (pictured). It will be important for the participants to design good environments for their agents to learn in. Configuration files for the playground can also be exchanged between participants should they wish to collaborate. The competition tasks will include ten cognitive categories each with ten subtasks.