Google’s DeepMind Lab Launches New Artificial Intelligence Gaming ToolSima‘ (Sima) has been introduced which can play with gamers like humans.
This development has raised concerns about the future of the online gaming community.
Sima, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is designed to play with gamers who follow instructions to complete tasks in video games.
It does not act like the non-playable characters (NPCs) commonly seen in video games, but acts as a companion to the gamer to complete whatever the human player instructs it to do. Help to do.
DeepMind Lab said that it is currently in the research phase and that the artificial intelligence will eventually learn to play any video game, even those set in virtual open worlds.
The company added that ‘Seema is not trained to win the game but to follow the instructions of the operators. The artificial intelligence will act like any other human player that can affect the outcome of the game.’
DeepMindLab explained that ‘Sema only requires provided images of the 3D environment and verbal instructions given by the user.
While such an AI player can be a helpful companion in multiplayer games with a story mode, it can also give gamers an unfair advantage.
For example, in games where you have to do the same thing over and over again to earn XP, the AI can be instructed to perform all the tasks that would have given the human gamer time for better strategy. Is.
Gamers took to social media to express their concerns that they may not perform well in the presence of undetectable AI agents in online games in the future.
One user said in a post on Reddit: ‘Once this type of AI agent improves itself to the level of AGI, humans will no longer be able to compete with it.’
Another user said: ‘Any gamer will be able to use this undetectable agent to win as they will eventually be able to pick up, learn and master any new game faster than anyone else. will go and then go far beyond our capacity.’
Google worked with a number of game developers, including Hello Games, Embracer, Tuxedo Labs, and Coffee Stein, to train and test Sima, and plugged the artificial intelligence into games like No Man’s Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and Wilhelm to bring it to those games. Can be taught the basics to play.
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DeepMind notes that from training to play video games, artificial intelligence has currently learned about 600 basic skills such as turning left, climbing stairs and opening menus to use a map.
The company noted that learning and playing a video game is a technical feat for an artificial intelligence system, but learning to follow instructions in different game settings makes AI agents more helpful for any environment.
Eventually, with more training, Sima can be instructed to perform more complex tasks in games, the AI lab said.
The researchers hope that the capabilities of advanced AI models like SIMA can also be used for useful real-world tasks.
He said: ‘We hope that SIMA and other agent research can use video games as a sandbox to better understand how AI systems can be more helpful.’
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