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I'm trying to evolve a bot for the current Google's AI challenge using genetic algorithms. The results so far: a mediocre bot that doesn't even win on all maps against the samples bots, and a laptop that is about to die every minute now from exhaustion.

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I would thnk genetic programming might make more sense. Have you looked into that?

I'd love to hear more about your approach. Email me? I thought of using GP for the tron google challenge but it was too slow to launch that java thing they give you to run the players.

- rent a bunch of servers

- do it on a GPU

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