Game on!
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015[ by Charles Cameron — a computer “plays” Mario Bros while a robot demonstrates “Bushido” ]
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Two stunning videos:
and:
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Justin Seitz turned me onto the Super Mario World video with this tweet:
This AI Used 'Neuroevolution' to Teach Itself How to Play 'Super Mario World' http://t.co/WQEcWswTm6 <- coolest article of 2015 so far
— Justin Seitz (@jms_dot_py) June 16, 2015
I’m one of those obstructionists who wouldn’t say the AI was “playing” — but that’s the hard problem in consciousness for you. I wonder what my friends Mike Sellers and Chris Bateman would have to say..
And no, I wouldn’t call the robotic slicing and dicing “Bushido” either. From the Hagakure:
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
Has the Yaskawa Bushido Project learned from rainstorms?
Indirectly, I suppose. But there you go.
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Interesting that John Holland, the “father of genetic algorithms”, described his life’s work as a Glass Bead Game, eh?
