United StatesAI agents left alone for 30 hours invented games.
The result hints at a third way to train AI, beyond demonstrations and rewards.
Agents that had played on the island got more objects onto its highest peak than fresh copies.
“All of this could be role-playing,” acknowledged Nathan Cloos, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and paper author.
The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.
How each outlet framed it
- MIT Technology Review
- reports the agents' unprompted play as an open question, asking whether scripted invented games like basketball and 'the floor is lava' count as playing
Sources: MIT Technology Review