Can Our AI Stay Alive? Moving, Collecting & Surviving

Can our AI keep moving and survive? An assisted navigation experiment — Next Game Tonight Nine distinct minutes from a real fifteen-minute private Freedoom/ViZDoom health-gathering session. No model-weight training; a local Qwen coach chooses the order of three depth-and-label-assisted controllers. The recording includes deaths and restarts, not fifteen minutes of survival in one life. Narration is written from logs and known controller behaviour. The footage has not been sped up. Full session totals: 13 deaths, 14 lives, 447 observed health increases. Game: Freedoom assets, https://freedoom.github.io/ ; engine/scenario: https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/ViZDoom . George is locally synthesised; background music is original Evening Arcade with no external samples. Copyright © 2001-2024 Contributors to the Freedoom project. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the Freedoom project nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. For a list of contributors to the Freedoom project, see the file CREDITS. NGT job: ai-navigation-001