Artificial Intelligence defeated a man in the game Mortal Kombat

Postgraduate students of the Department of Machine Learning from the Israeli Institute of Technology taught artificial intelligence to play on the prefix SNES, which was very popular in the 90s of the XX century. The Motherboard site reports impressive results: the program "got involved" in the gameplay, and it has already managed to defeat the opponent-man!

The developers note that the AI ​​algorithm was learning from the mistakes and often encountering difficulties, but after a lot of unsuccessful attempts and errors in tactics made during trial fights, still managed to snatch victory in one of the gaming sessions, tightly letting one of the professional players in Mortal Kombat!

"If our algorithm can solve in-game tasks and win video games, then we can use its capabilities in life," says Shai Rosenberg, one of the developers of the algorithm. "Just as children learn to press the right buttons at the right time and at the right time, our algorithm also learned something from trial and error!"

Now the Retro Learning Environment, the artificial intelligence of the Israeli Institute of Technology, has excelled in other games, so besides Mortal Kombat, it is not without effort, but still passes other hits that were released for the legendary gaming system - he was already given the opportunity to play F-Zero and Wolfenstein. Developers note the progress and hope that in the future they will be able to integrate AI into more complex games and show him the GTA, for example.

Prior to this, artificial intelligence programs have long been cut into video games. Earlier, programmers from other institutions and just enthusiasts, not without success, taught AI to play on the Atari 2600 console, pass Super Mario Bros for NES and even showed how to play Pong. The Israeli program began to learn fighting games and shooters. Thumbs up. We are waiting for her to begin to terrorize opponents in Mortal Kombat in an adult way, then it's possible to arrange a tournament between AI.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/research-development/iskusstvennyj-intellekt-pobedil-cheloveka-v-igre-mortal-kombat.html.