Multi-Agent Hide and Seek
Overview
OpenAI's short demo of agents playing hide-and-seek in a simulated environment. Through self-play, the agents develop six progressively more complex strategies and counter-strategies, including tool use.
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HN uses it as a vivid example of emergent behavior from multi-agent reinforcement learning, and as a way to make AI misalignment concerns feel concrete.
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Sources
Video by OpenAI, played through YouTube.
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