We've all played video games, and many of us will have watched other people play video games, but now the time has come to sit back and let AI do the job for us - and be surprisingly successful in the process!
Kaze Emanuar, a modder who has dedicated an awful lot of his time into changing up the familiar worlds of Super Mario 64 (and getting into trouble with Nintendo as a result), has taken things one step further and is now teaching multiple AIs to play the game.
Speaking to Kotaku, Emanuar explains that results so far have been mixed; the AIs are apparently very slow, 'having a tendency to fixate on solutions that have worked in certain contexts and applying them too broadly'. Despite this, though, there have been a couple of occasions where an AI has managed to successfully collect an in-game star such as this example below.
It doesn't end there, either. Emanuar goes on to explain that one particular AI has managed to learn and perform a technique that isn't widely known amongst human players.
“One AI has learned to wall jump to gain height. Another one has learned to perform slope triple jumps, which is something a regular casual player would never do and is kind of a hidden mechanic in [Super] Mario 64.”
Collecting the odd star and jumping up a wall may seem like very small steps towards having AI be able to complete a full game, but it's still an incredibly impressive feat nonetheless.
Can you envisage robots taking on Ganon in Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Master Mode within the next decade, or maybe finding every Power Moon in Super Mario Odyssey? Share your opinions in the comments below.
[source kotaku.co.uk]
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Well that's neat...
With Nvidia at the helm of AI, the next Switch will be a portable AI machine.
I bet Nintendo is already designing a new Zelda based on AI. What's better than an open world? A world that is not scripted but it learns, adapts and changes so it's different for every player.
When reached for comment, the AI said nothing... but did give us a gorgeous smile for the camera.
That's legit. Now make an AI play WarioWare DIY.
And with that this AI is better at the game than my cousin a few years back. She just couldn‘t get up that mountain for the life of her.
Love to welcome my new robotic video game overlords.
I recommend for reading: "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Max Tegmark
I recommend for watching: Sethbling's youtube channel for neural networks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
I don't get it. I see 3 different windows with the game running (seems like a hack because I don't remember those stars in those places honestly), Mario never touches any star in those windows and all of a sudden the guy say "he got a star, he got a star" I just don't understand. Nothing special happens in any of those three windows, Mario just keep running, pound the ground and nothing else. Stars are visible but he never touches one.
@LuckyLand I think they started the clip to late since he have 1 star when the clip starts. If they all started at 0 he must have gotten it just before the guy notice it.
One step closer to Skynet, I see.
@LuckyLand the stars are probably strewn about the world randomly so the AI can’t just trial and error to “memorize” the pattern to the first star. If they’re in a different place every time, the AI must figure out where it is and then figure out how to reach it, which requires more “learning” than completing the same path over and over.
Impressive, but still a long way to go...
So skynet might chill if we give it video games? Just not mario kart or we are all dead.
Ah Skynet.... your time is now...
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