{"id":135071,"date":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135071\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","slug":"google-is-training-gemini-agents-using-goat-simulator-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135071\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is training Gemini agents using &#8216;Goat Simulator 3&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has developed an AI-powered agent that&#8217;s playing video games, including <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/goat-simulator-3-trailer-game\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Goat Simulator 3<\/a> \u2014 yes, a goat-based video game. <\/p>\n<p>Google DeepMind created a Gemini-powered agent called SIMA 2 \u2014 &#8220;scalable instructable multiworld agent&#8221; \u2014 that&#8217;s navigating the world of Goat Simulator 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/11\/13\/1127921\/google-deepmind-is-using-gemini-to-train-agents-inside-goat-simulator-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported MIT Technology Review<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The AI agent is called SIMA 2 because, well, there was an original SIMA. We <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-deepmind-sima-ai-gaming-companion\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">covered the original project at Mashable<\/a>. The agent was designed to essentially serve as a video game companion \u2014 an AI-powered player that could accompany human players. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/review\/rog-xbox-ally-x-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld<\/a> has a similar, Copilot-powered feature.) SIMA 2 is apparently an improved version of the original. <\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>        SEE ALSO:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-deepmind-sima-ai-gaming-companion\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            Google is training an AI to play video games \u2014 why this could be problematic<\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Games have been a driving force behind agent research for quite a while,&#8221; Joe Marino, a researcher at Google DeepMind, said this week, via MIT Technology Review. <\/p>\n<p>The idea behind SIMA 2 is that the agent can learn and adapt in open-ended, complicated video games. A human player can also help direct the agent and improve its performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has developed an AI-powered agent that&#8217;s playing video games, including Goat Simulator 3 \u2014 yes, a goat-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-135071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}