Please pardon the editorialized title. I thought the original title was not very descriptive and used the words "NetHack AI" from the first line of the article instead.

I hope those guys will produce the Interhack-like program, soon.

No pardoning required; editing a title to clarify wording that would be vague to your intended audience is always allowed. It's why we have the title box, instead of just an automatic server-side <title>/<h1>-scrape.

See also: the classic Rogue-playing AI "Rog-o-matic" - http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/rogomatic.html (Rogue being the ancestor of NetHack)

The comments mention a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8nmScWpiJY) of the bot in action.

The article doesn't say this, so it's worth noting that TAEB is a Perl/Moose app.

I'd really like to see more descriptions of people applying AI to hard-but-not-commercially-interesting problems.