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Robot Plays Pitfall!; Next Up, Thermonuclear Warfare

The only winning move is to, uh, avoid the scorpion?

The field of machine learning and intelligence is a serious and important area of scientific research right now. Machines that can learn from their mistakes or learn entirely new tasks promises a future of improved industrial automation and electronics that are literally smarter. Still, it's hard not to chuckle just a little bit when the researchers at Rutgers choose to use video of a learning algorithm figuring out how to play Pitfall! to show their work in progress. Of course, only a fool laughs in the face of his future lord and master, and I'll no doubt either be dead or working in the deepest darkest parts of the magnesium mines once they figure out the launch codes. Check out Post Position for more of the nuts and bolts behind the Object-Oriented Markov Decision Process that drives this AI, then check out this video to see a machine figure out how to play Pitfall! You'll have to decide for yourself whether to smile or be profoundly disturbed when it does its victory dance.

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@georgecletus said:
":D even robots can enjoy the classics "

Why don't you tell them that when they're enslaving your family.
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While the only good clown is a dead clown, now with this youtube post, robots will soon also fall in this catagory.

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That dance does disturb me, SkyNet...

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Soon it will be playing street fighter. Then we're screwed.

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@DeadMonkeys said:
" Laughed quite at bit at its approach to the ladder..."Jumping, walking walking... OH GOD NOT YELLOW RUN AWAY. Ok, maybe it's OH GOD STILL NOT YELLOW. Maybe from the other OH GODDDDD!..." "
Lmfao - very true
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Cripes, I'll try to get my old AI tic-tac-toe game that uses the same algorithm up here.  But really, this isn't that complex nor advanced.  I wrote more advanced stuff in college.

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more like the river dance than a victory dance

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protip: if you wiggled your joystick back and forth fast enough, pitfall hairy looked like an octopus.

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eh

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..oh fuck..

We're all doomed!!

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So in 20 years we can imagine that blip blip blip noise at the end being replaced with the sound of our skulls being crushed under the irodclad boots of Cyborg Sam?

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That AI's using save states, the cheating pirate! :l

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Let's see it do Battletoads on the NES!

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I'll go with profoundly disturbed. Robots doing a victory dance? Holy shit The Terminator was a scary ass movie for it's time, but if it had broken out in a victory dance on the bridge after killing Kyle i'dve fucking shit my pants.

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Computers to take over Counter-Strike in 2010!

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Robot apocalypse. One step closer.

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@Ryan said:
"@Mercanis said:
" @Matte_G said:
" I heard in the news the other day about one of those US drones killing 43 Taliban guys in Pakistan. That wasn't even the messed up part though, you see the Taleban guys where attending the funeral of a guy who the drone had killed a few days before.

IT KILLED A DUDE TO BAIT A TRAP FOR ALL HIS OTHER TALEBAN FRIENDS!


THIS SHIT IS REAL KIDS AND IT'S HAPPENING NOW
"
I think it's important to clarify that unmanned military drones are piloted remotely by humans.
"
I dunno, I think I enjoy the paranoid-insane ramblings of Matte_G on their own."

I want what Matte_G is smoking.
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Uhm... I don't recall our hero sliding around so much, usually he's running full out.

Maybe I should click through and read the article?
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So Terminator is based on true events? Huh..

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So this is how Skynet is created.

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Well, I guess this means we're all doomed. It's been nice knowing you all. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find a cave and live off slime.

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Thats right, give them video games to keep there minds off of it. As long as we keep making video games Skynet will never come! Though we will get a new TV Show, Korea vs. Computers: Starcraft Showdown.

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Nanomachines.

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did no one get what the terminator movies were trying to tell us?

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Haven't these researchers ever heard of Skynet?  Fools!

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the youtube video doesn't work for me.

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awesome

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that was so awesome

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That computer is very happy it made it over the log.

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It's happening! It's actually happening! EVERYBODY PANIC!

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@Mercanis said:
" @Matte_G said:
" I heard in the news the other day about one of those US drones killing 43 Taliban guys in Pakistan. That wasn't even the messed up part though, you see the Taleban guys where attending the funeral of a guy who the drone had killed a few days before.

IT KILLED A DUDE TO BAIT A TRAP FOR ALL HIS OTHER TALEBAN FRIENDS!


THIS SHIT IS REAL KIDS AND IT'S HAPPENING NOW
"
I think it's important to clarify that unmanned military drones are piloted remotely by humans.
"
I dunno, I think I enjoy the paranoid-insane ramblings of Matte_G on their own.
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You know what else this should be filed under? Artificial intelligence.

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How about a nice game of chess?

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@Matte_G said:
" I heard in the news the other day about one of those US drones killing 43 Taliban guys in Pakistan. That wasn't even the messed up part though, you see the Taleban guys where attending the funeral of a guy who the drone had killed a few days before.

IT KILLED A DUDE TO BAIT A TRAP FOR ALL HIS OTHER TALEBAN FRIENDS!


THIS SHIT IS REAL KIDS AND IT'S HAPPENING NOW
"
I think it's important to clarify that unmanned military drones are piloted remotely by humans.
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Laughed quite at bit at its approach to the ladder...

"Jumping, walking walking... OH GOD NOT YELLOW RUN AWAY. Ok, maybe it's OH GOD STILL NOT YELLOW. Maybe from the other OH GODDDDD!..."

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Good luck with the scorpion, Mr Robot guy.

In other news, Pitfall > Pitfall II.

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I heard in the news the other day about one of those US drones killing 43 Taliban guys in Pakistan. That wasn't even the messed up part though, you see the Taleban guys where attending the funeral of a guy who the drone had killed a few days before.


IT KILLED A DUDE TO BAIT A TRAP FOR ALL HIS OTHER TALEBAN FRIENDS!


THIS SHIT IS REAL KIDS AND IT'S HAPPENING NOW
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man i used to love that game

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Lets play Thermonuclear War. Lul it's not real silleh, just a game.

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Quick, give it a copy of ET! That'll keep it busy for a while...

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:D even robots can enjoy the classics

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Today, my boss was talking about this "Future Tech" thing he watched on the History Channel where scientists are researching how to make people into cyborgs. Skynet is just around the corner.

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NOT GOOD.


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@MasturbatingBear said:
" oh shit! "
I thought you were dead!!

Anyways, Welcome Back.
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God help us all

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He plays better than I played...which is really sad.

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oh shit!

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The field of machine learning and intelligence is a serious and important area of scientific research right now. Machines that can learn from their mistakes or learn entirely new tasks promises a future of improved industrial automation and electronics that are literally smarter. Still, it's hard not to chuckle just a little bit when the researchers at Rutgers choose to use video of a learning algorithm figuring out how to play Pitfall! to show their work in progress. Of course, only a fool laughs in the face of his future lord and master, and I'll no doubt either be dead or working in the deepest darkest parts of the magnesium mines once they figure out the launch codes. Check out Post Position for more of the nuts and bolts behind the Object-Oriented Markov Decision Process that drives this AI, then check out this video to see a machine figure out how to play Pitfall! You'll have to decide for yourself whether to smile or be profoundly disturbed when it does its victory dance.