So, does current AI research have access to a similar artificial environment playground simulating: * body biochemistry * genetics / artificial evolution * p

So, does current AI research have access to a similar artificial environment playground simulating: * body biochemistry * genetics / artificial evolution * perceptual systems * motivations / drives * the interplay of different brain lobes * environmental processes like weather Can't think of one.. Has AL+AI research disappeared? The success with OpenAI DOTA is all great, but is DOTA (with its clearly defined pragmatic goal states) really more interesting for AI research than an autonomous artificial agent? Afaik this game saw one of the few applications of multi-layer perceptrons / neural networks in commercial games.