Scaling Instructable Agents Across Many Simulated Worlds
Authors: name: SIMA Team, name: Maria Abi Raad, name: Arun Ahuja, name: Catarina Barros, name: Frederic Besse, name: Andrew Bolt, name: Adrian Bolton, name: Bethanie Brownfield, name: Gavin Buttimore, name: Max Cant, name: Sarah Chakera, name: Stephanie C. Y. Chan, name: Jeff Clune, name: Adrian Collister, name: Vikki Copeman, name: Alex Cullum, name: Ishita Dasgupta, name: Dario de Cesare, name: Julia Di Trapani, name: Yani Donchev, name: Emma Dunleavy, name: Martin Engelcke, name: Ryan Faulkner, name: Frankie Garcia, name: Charles Gbadamosi, name: Zhitao Gong, name: Lucy Gonzales, name: Karol Gregor, name: Arne Olav Hallingstad, name: Tim Harley, name: Sam Haves, name: Felix Hill, name: Ed Hirst, name: Drew A. Hudson, name: Steph Hughes-Fitt, name: Danilo J. Rezende, name: Mimi Jasarevic, name: Laura Kampis, name: Rosemary Ke, name: Thomas Keck, name: Junkyung Kim, name: Oscar Knagg, name: Kavya Kopparapu, name: Andrew Lampinen, name: Shane Legg, name: Alexander Lerchner, name: Marjorie Limont, name: Yulan Liu, name: Maria Loks-Thompson, name: Joseph Marino, name: Kathryn Martin Cussons, name: Loic Matthey, name: Siobhan Mcloughlin, name: Piermaria Mendolicchio, name: Hamza Merzic, name: Anna Mitenkova, name: Alexandre Moufarek, name: Valeria Oliveira, name: Yanko Oliveira, name: Hannah Openshaw, name: Renke Pan, name: Aneesh Pappu, name: Alex Platonov, name: Ollie Purkiss, name: David Reichert, name: John Reid, name: Pierre Harvey Richemond, name: Tyson Roberts, name: Giles Ruscoe, name: Jaume Sanchez Elias, name: Tasha Sandars, name: Daniel P. Sawyer, name: Tim Scholtes, name: Guy Simmons, name: Daniel Slater, name: Hubert Soyer, name: Heiko Strathmann, name: Peter Stys, name: Allison C. Tam, name: Denis Teplyashin, name: Tayfun Terzi, name: Davide Vercelli, name: Bojan Vujatovic, name: Marcus Wainwright, name: Jane X. Wang, name: Zhengdong Wang, name: Daan Wierstra, name: Duncan Williams, name: Nathaniel Wong, name: Sarah York, name: Nick Young

Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions
in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing
this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied
actions, in order to accomplish complex tasks. The Scalable, Instructable,
Multiworld Agent (SIMA) project tackles this by training agents to follow
free-form instructions across a diverse range of virtual 3D environments,
including curated research environments as well as open-ended, commercial video
games. Our goal is to develop an instructable agent that can accomplish
anything a human can do in any simulated 3D environment. Our approach focuses
on language-driven generality while imposing minimal assumptions. Our agents
interact with environments in real-time using a generic, human-like interface:
the inputs are image observations and language instructions and the outputs are
keyboard-and-mouse actions. This general approach is challenging, but it allows
agents to ground language across many visually complex and semantically rich
environments while also allowing us to readily run agents in new environments.
In this paper we describe our motivation and goal, the initial progress we have
made, and promising preliminary results on several diverse research
environments and a variety of commercial video games.