# OpenAI Announces Two AI Competitions for NeurIPS 2020

OpenAI has revealed it will co-organize two major artificial intelligence competitions at NeurIPS 2020, partnering with AIcrowd, Carnegie Mellon University, and DeepMind.

The competitions will focus on two distinct challenges: the Procgen Benchmark and MineRL. Both are designed to test AI systems' ability to generalize across different environments rather than simply memorizing specific tasks.

Procgen, short for Procedurally Generated environments, challenges AI agents to perform well across randomly generated game levels they've never seen before. This tests whether AI can truly learn underlying skills rather than just memorizing solutions.

MineRL uses the popular game Minecraft as a testing ground for AI learning efficiency. The competition emphasizes sample-efficient learning, where AI agents must learn complex tasks without requiring massive amounts of training data.

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