AI research paper? Maybe not.
What's friendly about this AI?
What's friendly about this AI?
Nothing. It's mostly useful to illustrate cognitive biases around AI, demonstrating how alien a simple "utility"-maximizing process is, compared to how humans think about things. It's an example answer to the standard, "But my AI wouldn't do a stupid thing like that" objection. Well, yes, actually, it would. And the simpler and more elegant your design is, the higher the probability that it will do things like that: things you don't even think about because to a human, they're obviously stupid. (At ...
"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.