l2p, AI.
August 20, 2013 1:08 PM Subscribe
In April, we covered an AI that learns to play NES games. Youtube user suckerpinch has returned with a new video that provides a bit more info about LearnFun and PlayFun, and much more footage of it doing okay at video games.
This FPP is useless without a download link for douchetrade 3.1.
posted by 256 at 1:26 PM on August 20, 2013 [6 favorites]
posted by 256 at 1:26 PM on August 20, 2013 [6 favorites]
back to the learnymines with you until you can defeat cutman.
posted by boo_radley at 1:27 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by boo_radley at 1:27 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
That first video was one of the funniest things I ever saw. I can't wait to watch this one.
posted by DU at 1:40 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by DU at 1:40 PM on August 20, 2013
I thought this was pretty neat last time, but in this one, he addresses fears of this turning into Skynet within the first two minutes, which apparently means I am the the dumbed down YouTube audience he was shooting for this time around.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:52 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:52 PM on August 20, 2013
I love that he's acting out the idiosyncrasies of the AI with props. I wish I could call it method programming, but that's not what methods mean in programming.
posted by oceanjesse at 2:46 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by oceanjesse at 2:46 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
I want to see Playfun go to town on optimizing Reddit vote-gettiing using nothing but a keyboard and mouse for inputs, and ShitRedditSays as the training set.
posted by oceanjesse at 2:50 PM on August 20, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by oceanjesse at 2:50 PM on August 20, 2013 [3 favorites]
These videos make me inexplicably happy.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 2:56 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 2:56 PM on August 20, 2013
...burning through the futures until one randomly comes along that looks good...then unpauses and executes that good future...
This turn of phrase quoted in the last thread suggests that while this might not lead to Skynet, it is at least distantly related to how Banks imagined many of the Culture's Minds occupying themselves.
posted by snuffleupagus at 3:42 PM on August 20, 2013
This turn of phrase quoted in the last thread suggests that while this might not lead to Skynet, it is at least distantly related to how Banks imagined many of the Culture's Minds occupying themselves.
posted by snuffleupagus at 3:42 PM on August 20, 2013
And there I wondered why my browser thought I'd visited that link. I still love the idea of the programme looking at possible futures and choosing one by manipulating the RNG. It's very Dune.
posted by ersatz at 3:51 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by ersatz at 3:51 PM on August 20, 2013
That "Fistin' Honda" passes without comment is a bit of a shame, though.
posted by cortex at 3:56 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex at 3:56 PM on August 20, 2013 [1 favorite]
The SkyMall was a nice touch.
posted by Mike Smith at 4:40 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by Mike Smith at 4:40 PM on August 20, 2013
Playfun gets stabbier and stabbier. LOL.
posted by hot_monster at 8:23 PM on August 20, 2013
posted by hot_monster at 8:23 PM on August 20, 2013
What is the snark justification status of making fun observational comedy style, with props even, of a thing you yourself made?
posted by JHarris at 2:36 AM on August 21, 2013
posted by JHarris at 2:36 AM on August 21, 2013
As he says in the first video, there are a lot of ways to beat videogames and the best one is probably just to play it. He's not trying to beat the game, he's just going for an aesthetic, and I guess the aesthetic here is "omg that was hilariously stupid".
posted by DU at 4:16 AM on August 21, 2013
posted by DU at 4:16 AM on August 21, 2013
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