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DiG-bench measures AI's ability to discover hidden rules in novel environments through exploration, which serves as a proxy for creative intuition.

DiG-bench is a benchmark of 70 games designed to test whether AI can uncover hidden rules through interaction, measuring a core capability for creativity. ✦ AI generated

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How well can AI systems figure out the rules of their environment through exploration and curiosity, versus being fed them? That's an important question for better understanding the intuitive and creative capabilities of AI systems and it's one being asked by DiG-bench (Discovery in Games), a new benchmark of 70 games "designed to map the surface of discovery in well-controlled interactive systems".

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▦ Oxford ▦ Princeton ✳ DiG-bench ◉ Juergen Schmidhuber

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