We believe Artificial Intelligence is a technology platform that will transform every industry across the global economy. Despite its promise, the technology is often misunderstood. Moreover, it is often portrayed as an existential threat to humanity. With AI Arena, we want to educate the world about AI, inspire the next generation of researchers, and prove that an AI powered world can enhance the richness of human experience. In short, we want to bring AI to the masses.

Advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have resulted in recent breakthroughs in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) across many different domains. An emerging landscape of development environments is making powerful RL techniques more accessible for a growing community of researchers. However, most existing frameworks do not directly address the problem of learning in complex operating environments, such as dense urban settings or defense-related scenarios, that incorporate distributed, heterogeneous teams of agents. To help enable AI research for this important class of applications, we introduce the AI Arena: a scalable framework with flexible abstractions for distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning. The AI Arena extends the OpenAI Gym interface to allow greater flexibility in learning control policies across multiple agents with heterogeneous learning strategies and localized views of the environment. To illustrate the utility of our framework, we present experimental results that demonstrate performance gains due to a distributed multi-agent learning approach over commonly-used RL techniques in several different learning environments.

The emergence of digital technologies has been driving transformative changes across all industries, and the European Region has been no exception. Germany is all likely to be at the center of the region's new initiatives towards research and development with respect to artificial intelligence. FREMONT, CA: Central to these overall changes in the society and economy is artificial intelligence (AI) which has come to the forefront owing to enhanced processing power, and algorithms besides the tremendous increase in the quantity of data being generated everywhere. The potential of AI as a technology to function in such a way to transform the way we carry out businesses is undoubtedly proven. The technology can drive new possibilities for responding faster to customer requirements, besides market conditions paving the way for enterprises across various sectors to drive profits, increase revenue, and stay competitive.