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[AutomataKittay]

Looks good, and if it works, we should get it to do collab games with experienced players, might teach it important stuff about minecarts/pumps/magma/military/Fun.

Trying to teach a AI what !!FUN!! is is like teaching a 5 year old gun safety with a Fat Man launcher.

If it learns to go Boatmurdered, it's doing it's job right.

And probably immortal in term of DF time.

[ZimminyCricket]

Hey guys,

Just checking in to say, that I'm digging the response this thread is starting to get. 

I try to update ya'll at least once a week, but please forgive me if I slip. 

We skipped thursday night because of the weather, so sorry for not updating.  Have more news tomorrow night.

We've still got to interpret what we're actually seeing, but compared to writing the protocol to de-render curse, that shouldn't be too hard as we're going to feed it into a database, and then if I have my way just compare what character it's seeing to a table that's floating around on the wiki...somewhere.

Its starting to get interesting!

Catch ya'll later!

[hops]

Seeing that AIs have infinite patience, I feel that whatever it's going to make will be both terrifying and glorious.

[Orange Wizard]

How is the data from the Curses interpreter going to be... uh... interpreted by the AI? It seems hideously complicated.

<<Edited to remove some ambiguity>>
Assuming the AI 'understands' the Interpreter, will it be capable of registering multi-tile features, such as a cistern, or furnace room, or parts of the surface as 'unsafe due to goblins'? If so, how will this be done?

[ZimminyCricket]

How is the data from the Curses interpreter going to be... uh... interpreted by the AI? It seems hideously complicated.

<<Edited to remove some ambiguity>>
Assuming the AI 'understands' the Interpreter, will it be capable of registering multi-tile features, such as a cistern, or furnace room, or parts of the surface as 'unsafe due to goblins'? If so, how will this be done?

The data from the curses interpreter is going to dumped into a database.  The database is going to be broken down for each tile in each z-layer, and only the 'table' for the current z-layer is going to be kept live while the others are crunched in the background.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 I'm using quotes because we're going to be using MongoDB which is new to me

As far as your multi-tile feature question, I feel it is still a bit ambiguous and I'm not quite sure as to what you're asking. 

With the surface being unsafe due to gobbos, the AI will know (through registering a 'Event, or Mega-event) that it is under attack, and will learn how to handle such an event from there. 

[AutomataKittay]

How is the data from the Curses interpreter going to be... uh... interpreted by the AI? It seems hideously complicated.

<<Edited to remove some ambiguity>>
Assuming the AI 'understands' the Interpreter, will it be capable of registering multi-tile features, such as a cistern, or furnace room, or parts of the surface as 'unsafe due to goblins'? If so, how will this be done?

The data from the curses interpreter is going to dumped into a database.  The database is going to be broken down for each tile in each z-layer, and only the 'table' for the current z-layer is going to be kept live while the others are crunched in the background.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 I'm using quotes because we're going to be using MongoDB which is new to me

As far as your multi-tile feature question, I feel it is still a bit ambiguous and I'm not quite sure as to what you're asking. 

With the surface being unsafe due to gobbos, the AI will know (through registering a 'Event, or Mega-event) that it is under attack, and will learn how to handle such an event from there.

I believe that the question is can AI recognize functional part that's not a workshop by itself and it's own design or a collection of workshop working together ( Such as 'water holding space', 'where ore and scrap metal things go to be melted', etc. Or even just a power generating station full of watermills. ).

[ZimminyCricket]

Ah, we've yet to bridge that river, quite honestly we're taking this thing in small steps, planning each step upon the completion of the one prior.  Maybe not the best way to tackle the problem, but with a problem so large........

[HiEv]

We've still got to interpret what we're actually seeing, but compared to writing the protocol to de-render curse, that shouldn't be too hard as we're going to feed it into a database, and then if I have my way just compare what character it's seeing to a table that's floating around on the wiki...somewhere.

It's at the wiki here: Tilesets

However, I should note that many, if not most, characters mean multiple things.

You're still going about things the hard way, IMO.  It would make more sense to use DFHack to interpret the screen, get various info, send commands, etc., instead of reading the screen and having the program to try to interpret that and sending key commands.

[ZimminyCricket]

We've still got to interpret what we're actually seeing, but compared to writing the protocol to de-render curse, that shouldn't be too hard as we're going to feed it into a database, and then if I have my way just compare what character it's seeing to a table that's floating around on the wiki...somewhere.

It's at the wiki here: Tilesets

However, I should note that many, if not most, characters mean multiple things.

You're still going about things the hard way, IMO.  It would make more sense to use DFHack to interpret the screen, get various info, send commands, etc., instead of reading the screen and having the program to try to interpret that and sending key commands.

Again, we're trying to write an AI that can be moved from Roguelike to Roguelike, so we're dealing with RAW ASCII art, It just so happens that we picked the MOST DIFFICULT ROGUELIKE EVER to get started with. 

[AutomataKittay]

We've still got to interpret what we're actually seeing, but compared to writing the protocol to de-render curse, that shouldn't be too hard as we're going to feed it into a database, and then if I have my way just compare what character it's seeing to a table that's floating around on the wiki...somewhere.

It's at the wiki here: Tilesets

However, I should note that many, if not most, characters mean multiple things.

You're still going about things the hard way, IMO.  It would make more sense to use DFHack to interpret the screen, get various info, send commands, etc., instead of reading the screen and having the program to try to interpret that and sending key commands.

Again, we're trying to write an AI that can be moved from Roguelike to Roguelike, so we're dealing with RAW ASCII art, It just so happens that we picked the MOST DIFFICULT ROGUELIKE EVER to get started with.

I'd argue Nethack's more difficult, and I've never gotten far in it

DF is more complicated, yes, but not really more difficult.

[HiEv]

Again, we're trying to write an AI that can be moved from Roguelike to Roguelike, so we're dealing with RAW ASCII art, It just so happens that we picked the MOST DIFFICULT ROGUELIKE EVER to get started with.

No offense, but you're never going to make an AI that can learn to play multiple rougelikes.  To do that would require an AI on the level that experienced AI researchers only dream of.

To put it another way, if you're making a collection of expert systems then most (99%) of the things you need the AI to do in Dwarf Fortress would have no applicability in any other roguelike.  If you're not making a collection of expert systems, then you're going to need natural language processing, problem solving, pattern recognition, automatic object categorization and relational modeling, and a host of other AI techniques that would take a team of researchers with a huge budget years to make before it could begin to do what you're talking about.

You aren't just shooting for the moon, you're shooting for a moon that's one galaxy over.

I would highly recommend scaling back your goals to something reasonable.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Try shooting for a star a galaxy over, they're bigger.

If you're making AI that versatile, congrats and roguelikes are a bit of a narrow field to put it in.


Mire likely, you're going farther than you can. Stick to one game.

[Fieari]

So, you're trying to make a roguelike AI, not a DF AI?  Because DF is not a Roguelike except in adventure mode.