This is very cool, but it isn't really "playing" the game. Instead it's "memorizing" how to complete a specific level through trial and error.
If you took this neural network and tried it on another Mario level, it would fail miserably.
If you took this neural network and tried it on another Mario level, it would fail miserably.
> Yeah, I think it wouldn't generalize super well, but I did try it on another easy level and it was able to get halfway through it.
- the author, at http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/39qel5/top_super_mar...
Super Mario World is very deterministic.
The Author is streaming various learning tasks on his twitch. MarI/O has been trained on 3 levels so far, for 24 hours each.