{"id":4466,"date":"2009-08-15T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2009-08-14T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:41:14","slug":"mario-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4466","title":{"rendered":"Mario AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the series on AI, here is an interesting project: <a href=\"http:\/\/julian.togelius.com\/mariocompetition2009\/index.php\">Mario AI Competition<\/a>, a competition for people to build the best Mario-playing AI possible.  Here is one of the entries:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlkMs4ZHHr8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.ic.ac.uk\/~rb1006\/projects:marioai\">Here is the project page<\/a> for the particular AI featured in the video.<\/p>\n<p>The Mario game itself is a procedurally generated infinite level. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/93858-Computer-Script-Is-Really-Good-At-Playing-Mario\">John Funk<\/a> likened this to putting a slinky on an escalator. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the series on AI, here is an interesting project: Mario AI Competition, a competition for people to build the best Mario-playing AI possible. Here is one of the entries: Link (YouTube) Here is the project page for the particular AI featured in the video. The Mario game itself is a procedurally generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}