Teaching Neural Cellular Automata To Play Games

Playing Pong, Solving Mazes and Guessing At Pictionary using NCAs

Some tiny experiments in pushing on what NCA can do, showing my own tiny experiments but also pointing at some resources and hopefully inspiring you to try some new ideas yourself :)

Explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_cVJoD2uk

Markdown file with hopefully enough info for your coding agent of choice to get your own experiments going: https://gist.github.com/johnowhitaker/bf664eb56dfe50b05d5ef319a0364dae

Key references:

• https://wandb.ai/johnowhitaker/nca/reports/Fun-With-Neural-Cellular-Automata–VmlldzoyMDQ5Mjg0
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13545
• https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

Also, I did some content for fast.ai on NCAs hidden deep in this video - worth a look if you want more polished content from me on this stuff :)