When playing a video game, what motivates you to carry on?

This question is perhaps too broad to yield a single answer, but if you had to sum up why you accept that next quest, jump into a new level, or cave and playjust one more turn, the simplest explanation might be “curiosity” — just to see what happens next. And as it turns out, curiosity is a very effective motivator when teaching AI to play video games, too.IN A GAME WITHOUT REWARDS, TEACHING AI IS DIFFICULT

Research published this week by artificial intelligence lab OpenAI explains how an AI agent with a sense of curiosity outperformed its predecessors playing the classic 1984 Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge. Read More

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