CHINA AI "NOAH'S ARC" KILL 'MELICAN MINECRAFT

To challenge research teams working on reinforcement learning techniques, the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) annual conference introduced the MineRL competition, a contest in which different algorithms are tested on the same task in Minecraft, the renowned computer game developed by Mojang Studios. More specifically, contestants are asked to create algorithms that will need to obtain a diamond from raw pixels in the Minecraft game.

The algorithms can only be trained for four days and on 8,000,000 samples created by the MineRL simulator, using a single GPU machine. In addition to the training dataset, participants are also provided with a large collection of human demonstrations (i.e., video frames in which the task is solved by human players).

A team of researchers at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Tianjin University and Tsinghua University won the NeurIPS- MineRL 2020 competition. Using a sample-efficient hierarchical artificial intelligence (AI) tool called SEIHAI, the researchers were able to outperform all other algorithms participating in the contest.

"We present SEIHAI, a sample-efficient hierarchical AI that fully takes advantage of the human demonstrations and the task structure," Hangyu Mao and his colleagues wrote in a paper outlining their AI, which was pre-published on arXiv. "Specifically, we split the task into several sequentially dependent subtasks and train a suitable agent for each subtask using reinforcement learning and imitation learning."

To obtain a diamond in Minecraft, players need to follow a series of steps. …

https://minerl.io/

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-seihai-hierarchical-ai-won-neurips-.html

The use of an array of tactics to baffle the perception in conflict is not new, nor is the strategy confined to the human species. Predators who exploit the perceptual deficiencies of prey are common in nature. As human hunters wear camouflage, spread scents and simulate game calls to imitate prey animals, Paussid beetles forge chemical signals, blinding ant species they prey on to their presence among them in the nest. A famous human group employed similar tactics. Hasan ibn Sabah’s Assassins.

Ibn Sabah allegedly learned his art of mind control from priests of the mysteries in Egypt, but whatever the origin of the tactics, the Assassins used hypnotic induction, symbolism, stage magic and drugs create a belief system which insured 100 % loyalty and instant compliance with leader’s instructions. Nation state rulers have great difficulty securing large numbers of people willing to die on command.

Hasan al Sabah’s Assassins prospered for 300 years and spread their agents through the middle east because they could create adherents who would raise families, live amongst the opponent for 30 years, and remain loyal and instantly obedient to leader’s orders – even when ordered to commit assassinations certain to result in capture and execution.

Some beetles are walking organic chem labs, they synthesize explosives, chemical warfare agents, sex changing molecules – ‘’’they read and write the language of the victims perceptions.’’’

"Ant-nest beetles (Paussus) are the quintessential Trojan horses of the insect world. ‘’’They hack the complex communication system of ants, allowing them to blend into the ant society and be treated as royalty, all the while preying upon the ants and the ants' brood and duping the ants into rearing their young. ‘’’

How would we transpose this pattern. To what other species might this apply?

…Here we present results of the first molecular-based phylogeny of ant-nest beetles, which reveals that this symbiosis has produced one of the most stunning examples of rapid adaptive radiation documented to date.

‘’’A very successful strategy. ‘’’

Human beings perceive only a narrow band of visible light wave lengths and hear only a narrow range sound frequencies. Not one human in a million recognize the large blind spot in the middle of our visual field until it is demonstrated to us. We're never suspect our sense are not all there is, or other species could possibly take advantage of our limited perception.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Explosive-Adaptive-Radiation-and-Extreme-Phenotypic-Moore-Robertson/64f28dbf2f4c4ed67578ed3ac63a92da68c02801

https://www.britannica.com/science/blind-spot

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In Greek mythology, Atë, Até ː/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτη) was the goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. She also led both gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering. Até also refers to an action performed by a hero that leads to their death or downfall.

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