Nice work, the new site looks great.
replyCan you give more background on the Ants game?
I didn't find it on the current site or the older one.
Was the game inspired by anything like agent-based simulations?
I'm not super interested in what the tech industry is calling "agentic" AI, but I am interested in collective intelligence, see David Ha's work in this area: - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221114... - https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/105817
Would be cool if each ant itself could be an agent
Unfortunately the competition site is mostly down and couldn't find much about the old competition other than the participants blog articles. Do a search on "Google Ants AI Challenge - post mortem", and you get a lot of articles around the game.
replyThanks for sharing the research. I tried implementing a per Ant decision making model, but gave up as the training time was much longer compared to the current baseline. I think I should rethink the idea.
Nice. I was 72nd. Working in AI research today and still making ai for games as a hobby (tfmbot.com is an ai i’m working on for my favourite board game terraforming mars).
replyThanks for sharing. I remember #1 xathis had a score, big leap ahead of others. The difference in techniques in top 100 was almost the same.
replyI remember a game on Steam called Tiny Brains, great couch co-op.
replyFrom competing with the world to building a place for the world to compete—what a full-circle moment. Love the challenge: how much strategy can a tiny neural network learn? Excited to see what people build.
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