Sunday 10 September 2017

AI learns to re-create Super Mario Bros. by watching someone else play it

Usually, when we get AI systems to watch video games, we expect them to play the games afterward. That’s how computers have beaten everything from the board game Go to various Atari titles. But a group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are trying something different: they’re getting AI to learn how video games work instead.

In a recent paper titled “Game Engine Learning from Video,” the team describes an AI system that can re-create the game engine of titles like Super Mario Bros. just by watching it being played. The system doesn’t have access to the code; it just looks at the pixels and learns. The re-creations it makes are glitchy, but passable.

It’s a first in the world of AI video gaming, but there are...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16276528/ai-video-games-game-engine

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/ai-learns-to-re-create-super-mario-bros.html

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