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[xominxac]

After seeing how Google's AI beat one of the best Go players out there, I have two questions. Is it possible to teach an AI how to play Dwarf Fortress, and two, who wants to do it?

[scamtank]

Wasn't there a DFHack plugin for that already? I gotta check.

e: yeah, here it is https://github.com/BenLubar/df-ai

[macscarfe]

Sadly this being Dwarf Fortress i think we'll get the other extreme of machine learning.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Hopefully this being Dwarf Fortress i think we'll get the other extreme of machine learning.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188

Fixed that for you.

[Putnam]

Wasn't there a DFHack plugin for that already? I gotta check.

e: yeah, here it is https://github.com/BenLubar/df-ai

That's just an AI, no learning involved.

[AceSV]

I feel like you could just email this thread to Google and one of them would get on it, either for fun or as an official project.  Kind of the same way I think that if we sat down and showed this game to JJ Abrams he would immediately get started on Dwarf Fortress the movie. 

[pikachu17]

wouldn't it be weird having an animated ASCII movie?

[Shonai_Dweller]

With the right lighting, music and camera movement I'm sure the full range of emotions could be drawn out of a dwarf smily-face.

[Insanegame27]

With the right lighting, music and camera movement I'm sure the full range of emotions could be drawn out of a dwarf smily-face.

At least the range of emotions cant be worse than Anakin's emotions in Attack Of The Clones...

[Shonai_Dweller]

I feel like you could just email this thread to Google and one of them would get on it, either for fun or as an official project.  Kind of the same way I think that if we sat down and showed this game to JJ Abrams he would immediately get started on Dwarf Fortress the movie.

But, how could you judge how well it's learning? It could spend the first few years generating the perfect world and tweaking raws (like some players surely do...) without ever starting up the game. Is that success?

How about "Learn to play the game and be able to report on it's own adventures by being able to judge what the community would think is a pretty cool story." Now that's a challenge I'd like to see an AI attempt one day. Much more impressive than playing Go by itself a billion times.

[xominxac]

But, how could you judge how well it's learning? It could spend the first few years generating the perfect world and tweaking raws (like some players surely do...) without ever starting up the game. Is that success?

How about "Learn to play the game and be able to report on it's own adventures by being able to judge what the community would think is a pretty cool story." Now that's a challenge I'd like to see an AI attempt one day. Much more impressive than playing Go by itself a billion times.

I'm sorely tempted to try and figure out how this stuff works but I can't help but feel it would take much longer than I'd be willing to work on.

[Chevaleresse]

I feel like you could just email this thread to Google and one of them would get on it, either for fun or as an official project.  Kind of the same way I think that if we sat down and showed this game to JJ Abrams he would immediately get started on Dwarf Fortress the movie.

But, how could you judge how well it's learning? It could spend the first few years generating the perfect world and tweaking raws (like some players surely do...) without ever starting up the game. Is that success?

How about "Learn to play the game and be able to report on it's own adventures by being able to judge what the community would think is a pretty cool story." Now that's a challenge I'd like to see an AI attempt one day. Much more impressive than playing Go by itself a billion times.

That sounds far, far beyond our current understanding of artificial intelligence, js.

[pikachu17]

I think that the more humans play with actual artificial intelligience the closer we get to skynet(I don't know for sure what skynet is, but I think it's created by evil robots with A.A.I)

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Other way round Pikachu.

Also, this would be pretty cool.

[Putnam]

anytime people bring up terminator in discussions of AI I just imagine them bringing up the jetsons in matters of architecture

it's really about the same thing