# Long-Term Planning Articoli collegati

AlphaGo's Creator Puts AI into a 23-Year-Old Artificial Society: All Three Toughest Challenges for AI Agents Are Here

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, has embarked on a new AI research venture by partnering with the long-running space MMO, EVE Online. This collaboration, announced in early May, aims to use the game's 23-year-old, player-driven persistent universe as a testbed for tackling three core challenges in AI agent research: long-horizon planning, memory, and continual learning. Unlike previous DeepMind environments like AlphaGo (Go) or AlphaStar (StarCraft II), EVE Online features no fixed end state. Its single-shard universe has fostered complex, emergent player societies with real economies, political alliances, and wars that can span months or years. These conditions naturally demand the very skills—long-term strategic planning, maintaining memories over extended periods, and adapting to constant change—that are hardest for current AI agents to master. The research will initially use an offline version of EVE, providing a controlled, complex sandbox without interfering with the live player server. This move continues DeepMind's trajectory of using increasingly complex and open-ended virtual worlds for AI training, from Atari games and Go to StarCraft II and the SIMA project. The EVE environment represents a significant step towards testing AI in a persistent, socially complex, and continuously evolving world shaped by human behavior over decades.

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