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universe

Universe: a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications.

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What it is

Universe: a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-12-05 15:19:38 UTC to 2020-05-12 17:42:53 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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DARPA/IARPA now invests in search 2.0: Instead of asking it to retrieve stored information, you can instruct an agent/search bot to perform tasks for you. For instance, one should be able to search for: "who is the leader of this IRC hacker group?" "where can heroine be bought on the deep web?" "Is there women trafficking going on behind that log-in wall?" and then an intelligent agent is dispatched, avoiding/crossing roadblocks, like log-in forms, and will eventually bring you the answer. Coursera has more on the basics, like: https://www.coursera.org/learn/text-retrieval OpenAI has more on the current happenings of creating more intelligent search bots: https://github.com/openai/universe Other possible future research areas in information retrieval include being able to search for services ("Where is cheapest taxi service for current lo
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cation?") and an integration with IOT.
In Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
By Blizzard you mean Rockstar? edit: An issue was opened[0] but there has been no response. I find it hard to believe a C&D comes with a gag order but IANAL. I find it frustrating there's no transparency on this, and I hope I'm not being overly dramatic, but I would have expected more openness here. There could be a very reasonable explanation for keeping mum on this, I guess. [0] https://github.com/openai/universe/issues/126
In ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving solution
It looks like the image from the server and control information to the server is sent through the VNC protocol. Other information such as the reward signal from the environment server is sent through a WebSockets protocol using JSON: https://github.com/openai/universe/blob/master/doc/protocols... You should be able to implement this protocol for your environment and run a VNC server for the rest. A new class for the client representing your environment can be based on this: https://github.com/openai/universe/blob/master/universe/envs... Then register the class with OpenAI Gym: https://github.com/openai/universe/blob/master/universe/__in... After creating the environment using gym.make you need to add information about your remote in the call to configure: env = gym.make('gtav.SaneDriving-v0') env.configure(remotes="vnc://localhost:vnc_por
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t+rewarder_port") https://github.com/openai/gym/blob/master/gym/core.py#L234 https://github.com/openai/universe/blob/master/universe/envs... This is only based on a cursory reading, but it should be possible to use custom environments with OpenAI Universe as it is today.
In OpenAI Universe

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