(Photo : Pixabay/geralt) Facebook NetHack
Facebook announced on June 9 that it wants to challenge NetHack and is looking for an AI to assist them. The social media giant is launching a competition at the NeurlPS 2021 AI conference in Sydney, Australia.
Facebook stated that NetHack, an 80s video game with simple visuals considered among the most difficult games in the world, can enable data scientists to benchmark state-of-the-art AI methods in a complex environment without the need to run experiments on a computer.
Facebook Wants to Beat NetHack
Games have served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence for years, but things started to escalate in 2013, the year that Google s DeepMind showed a system that could play Breakout, Pong, Seaquest, Space Invaders, Enduro, Beamrider, and Q bert at superhuman levels.