Smart Team Play: Utility of Population-Based Training for Cooperative AI in Overcooked

In an ad-hoc teamwork environment, artificial intelligence agents have the potential to take on supportive roles and complete tasks in collaboration with human players. The following paper investigates the use of employing population-based training (PBT) for reinforcement learning agents in the multi-player game Overcooked. In addition to this,...

Assisting agent’s effect on the trustworthiness of their human teammate

Collaborative AI (CAI) is a fast growing field of study. Cooperation between teams composed of humans and artificial intelligence needs to be principled and founded on reciprocal trust. Modelling the trustworthiness of humans is a difficult task because of the ambiguous nature of its definition as well as the effect of team work dynamic. This...