CS Forum: "Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence" Jochen Renz, Australian National University

2017-10-06 12:15:00 2017-10-06 13:00:00 Europe/Helsinki CS Forum: "Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence" Jochen Renz, Australian National University CS department's public guest lecture on 'Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence'. The lecture is open to everyone free-of-charge. http://old.cs.aalto.fi/en/midcom-permalink-1e7a37454f6793aa37411e79cd4a3718459d57bd57b Konemiehentie 2, 02150, Espoo

CS department's public guest lecture on 'Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence'. The lecture is open to everyone free-of-charge.

06.10.2017 / 12:15 - 13:00
seminar room T5, Konemiehentie 2, 02150, Espoo, FI

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Professor Jochen Renz
Australian National University

Host: Jussi Rintanen
Time: 12:15 (coffee at 12:00)
Venue: T5, CS building

Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence

Abstract:

The Angry Birds AI Competition (aibirds.org) has been held annually since 2012. The goal of the competition is to build AI agents that can play new Angry Birds levels as good as or better than the best human players. Successful agents should be able to quickly analyze new levels and to predict physical consequences of possible actions in order to select actions that solve a given level with a high score. Agents have no access to the game internal physics, but only receive screenshots of the live game.

In this talk we describe why this problem is a challenge for AI, and why it is an important step towards building AI that can successfully interact with the real world. We also summarise some highlights of past competitions and present some recent research results.