OpenAI challenges you to beat 1990s classic Sonic the Hedgehog using machine learning

OpenAI has launched a new competition using classic Sonic the Hedgehog games as a testbed for transfer learning in AI. Reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning that tries to teach an agent specific behaviours in a fixed environment. The agent is programmed to explore its environment and experiments with different …

[Omgwtfbbqtime]

Hmm heard something like this before...

Something to play tedious games for you?

Whatever next, an electric monk to believe tedious things for you?

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: Hmm heard something like this before...

I'd like to have something that "solves" the stupid Google capchas for me.

[Jay Lenovo]

Almost Awesome

Given an indeterminate amount of human setup, I've created an automated tool to solve our problems in an untimely manner.

-Prof Hindsight.

[Anonymous Coward]

MarI/O, for those who haven't seen it, is a neural network playing Mario:

https://youtu.be/qv6UVOQ0F44?t=45s

Fascinating to watch it "learning".

[energonic]

Essentially a way to understand better how humans learn (or not).

[Francis Boyle]

I'd Like to see them use the ET game

Yeah, I'm a sadist.

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: I'd Like to see them use the ET game

Pimania.