Happy Birthday Mario Kart (or Please Enjoy: This Obligatory Mario Kart Post)

Matt Hawkins
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

I suppose it’s no coincidence that Prosthetic Knowledge decided to share the following video on the same day that Mario Kart turns 25, which is today. But yeah, what you’re seeing is a neural network playing Mario Kart 64

From the description…

“This is NOT a human playing the game, it is in fact the program I wrote. It is a special kind of machine learning that models biological evolution to evolve “species” to find the optimal solution to the problem. In this case the problem is Mario Kart 64! This run is the result of about two days of training.”

… This is somewhat familiar with MarI/O, which is the same basic thing but with Super Mario World from a few years back (and which you’ve probably seen, especially since the video has nearly 5 million views)…


Originally published on blog.attractmo.de; edits have been made that are Medium specific.

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