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December 9, 2018 6:07 AM

Uber engineers build an AI that can reliably beat 80s videogame classic Montezuma's Revenge.
posted by panama joe (5 comments total)

Perhaps the underwear gnomes are using this to find a way through PHASE 2.
posted by otherchaz at 6:56 AM on December 9, 2018 [3 favorites]

That's true -- if they could find the treasure room, they could pay back some of their investors.
posted by panama joe at 6:57 AM on December 9, 2018 [7 favorites]

The content and tone of this article were oddly disparate. Like being told about someone’s crochet project at a condo sales seminar. Neat project tho.
posted by q*ben at 7:46 AM on December 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

The Pitfall cartridge they’re using is a bootleg. I wonder if that makes any difference. Probably not.
posted by Ampersand692 at 11:06 AM on December 9, 2018

I don’t know why, but l misattributed the game title and was visualizing the game “Custer’s Revenge”.

Probably because they’re Uber engineers.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 9:06 PM on December 9, 2018 [3 favorites]