Extra Future
Over on the Substack you can find issue 42 of Phil’s Newsletter, wherein we discuss generative adversarial networks, release a new Monster Association video, and my sister-in-law Jessica critiques my favorite Beatles songs.
Today (August 13, 2021) is also the first episode of All Elite Wrestling’s new show, Rampage. We’ll be doing a live watch-along with my Patrons in my Discord channel starting 6:30pm Pacific.
[All of the java components][link] that won [the contest][contest]. Watch the slow-mo video if you want to weep for humanity’s eventual end.
[link]: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai “Robins Pages! :: projects:marioai”
[contest]: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/index.php “Mario Competition 2009”
[Incredible demo video][link] from one of the entrants in the [Super Mario AI][comp] competition. [mentioned previously][prev] on Extra Future. See also: [The project page][project], which explains the process behind the AI.
The developer says he’ll release the source code once the contest is over.
[link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8 “YouTube – Infinite Mario AI – Long Level”
[project]: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai “Project Page for Infinite Mario AI”
[comp]: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/index.php “Mario AI Competition homepage”
[prev]: http://extrafuture.com/2009/08/04/mario-ai-competition-2009/ “Previously on Extra Future”
[Write a Mario Bros-playing AI in Java][link] and win some money and nerd fame. I can see myself spending a lot of time with this.
via [Jesper][jesper]
[link]: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ “Mario AI Competition 2009”
[jesper]: http://waffle.wootest.net/ “Waffle”