This thing looks more and more relevant as I think about it. What it does is not just optimizing an objective function in a weird and unexpected way, but actually learning it in all its complicatedness from observed human behavior.
Would it be an overestimation to call this a FAI research paper?
AI research paper? Maybe not.
What's friendly about this AI?
"Pretty simple" algorithm playing games quite impressively.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
First, this is awesome - enjoy!
Paper here http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf
One interesting observation made by Tom Murphy is that the AI found and exploited playable bugs in the game not (commonly) known to human players. I think it's a good example to have available suggesting what a really smart AI might look for to win.