The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills | WIRED - U球体育

Worldmodeldata says it has licensed almost 1 million hours' worth of data from studios behind various popular video games, though Loucas declined to name them. In the future, the startup is aiming to create avenues for individual players to be compensated, too. [...] Worldmodeldata, a British startup advised by LeCun, is aiming to solve that problem by packaging controller inputs and other data collected by video game studios—an exhaust product available in massive quantities—into training datasets for world models. Some companies, like General Intuition and Niantic, are already collecting video game data from their own platforms to build models. But Worldmodeldata pitches itself as a broker that curates and organizes data, saving labs from striking [...] With the twirl of a thumbstick, squeeze of a trigger, and press of a few buttons, even an unskilled player can dance their way through a 3D video game environment. A British startup is wagering that straightforward sequences like these contain a trove of information that can be used to train new artificial intelligence models.