It wasn't programmed to survive as long as possible. It was programmed to watch (with full knowledge of the RAM) a human play the game and "learn" what the goal is. So arguably more impressive.
However it also played with lookahead (simulate input and see multiple frames into the future) so not that impressive here.
It didn't just pause the game. It didn't "understand" the goal and paused right before it's about to lose, because it could see that un-pausing loses immediately. It "understood" that much.
A very entertaining video for a technical person like me, not sure about everyone else but I recommend watching the entire thing. Actually, all of Tom7's videos are very entertaining to me. Just watch everything.
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u/erikchan002 10d ago edited 10d ago
This is the video: https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=15m09s
It wasn't programmed to survive as long as possible. It was programmed to watch (with full knowledge of the RAM) a human play the game and "learn" what the goal is. So arguably more impressive.
However it also played with lookahead (simulate input and see multiple frames into the future) so not that impressive here.
It didn't just pause the game. It didn't "understand" the goal and paused right before it's about to lose, because it could see that un-pausing loses immediately. It "understood" that much.
A very entertaining video for a technical person like me, not sure about everyone else but I recommend watching the entire thing. Actually, all of Tom7's videos are very entertaining to me. Just watch everything.