Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework — mentioned by gwern

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:27:53 GMT

Because Nethack and video games remove most of the reasons that GOFAI failed; for example, everything hard about perception from pixels is removed when you have a little parsed text grid of cells presented to you or are hooked into the game engine and query objects directly. (The real world is not made of a clean little grid of discrete high-level objects like 'dragon' or 'black jelly'.) Moravec's paradox again: humans find perception easy but things like Sokoban hard, while GOFAI approaches find Sokoban so trivial that it's common to use it (or Sudoku) as a toy problem introduction to…

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Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework — mentioned by gwern