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Microsoft Research announces TextWorld, an extensible framework for generating text-based games
Microsoft Research Montreal lab last week announced an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible framework based on Python which can be used for generating text-based games. Researchers can use this framework to train and test AI agents in…
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Microsoft’s new TextWorld framework generates games to train AI models
TextWorld enables researchers to define how games should play out by providing high-level specifications. It also lets researchers use existing, human-written games to create an even more challenging training environment.
TextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents, inspired by text-based games
| Wendy Tay, Adam Trischler, and Emery Fine
Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement learning researchers can use TextWorld to train and test AI agents in skills such…
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Going Deep
El Asri, a research manager at Microsoft’s Montreal research lab, and her colleagues are grappling with the challenge of designing computer systems that can interact with humans the way humans interact with one another.