The depth and complexity of the systems in NetHack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. "You have ...

Classic open source dungeon-crawler NetHack has been around since the mid-80s, and it looks like it, thanks to its low quality graphics. In fact, you can even opt to play NetHack using ASCII art ...

I was curious if there was anyone else out there that had an obsession with these types of games. If you are not familiar with these types of games, they are text-graphical based. Generally they are ...

People have been designing bots to play NetHack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new ...

Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, Go, Atari games and more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to take on a different kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not be familiar with NetHack, but it's one of the most influential games of all time. You're an adventurer in a fantasy ...