Nice work, the new site looks great.

Can 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.

Thanks 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.

Understood, thanks! We must need smaller models :)

> In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack

oh

Yup. More hype mania from someone with a financial interest in people abdicating their thought to AI.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054425

Note this is version 4 of the paper and the original post was version 1 (I think?)

OpenReview (for NeurIPS) for the curious: https://openreview.net/forum?id=jiCLUPq5xv