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YouTube - Tetris Artificial intelligence (AI)

TruDann rated 7 months agoFeatured Review
I don't understand how its an AI.. isn't it just an algorithm with set instructions..? Also why did they go with the 11 square width version instead of the regular 10 or 12? I smell a loophole =p. An AI that plays tetris would be amazing even if it wasn't god awesome at it, as long...

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YellowCitra rated 7 months ago
when they say a video game has AI people don't freak out saying the game doesn't really learn or whatever. "I'm playing against the AI" "OMG that's not AI! ARRRG! It's a program! I'll kill you!" And it does get more than one line a lot of times.
caustik rated 10 months ago
not explained at all how it works. could just be stupid heuristics. also tetris is not a difficult game to learn. also it always gets single lines, which is ass.
Cyclohexane01 rated 7 months ago
It appears that the computer just randomly picks a spot when it must leave one block open.
longshotalpha rated 7 months ago
I think that the choice of background music is the worst problem with this video. I don't care how cool your video is, if you use random terrible music, I automatically have determined your efforts to be worthless as far as I'm concerned. Why should I have to endure the unpleasantness on your account? I shouldn't have to mute my sound just to sit through your video.
TruDann rated 7 months ago
I don't understand how its an AI.. isn't it just an algorithm with set instructions..? Also why did they go with the 11 square width version instead of the regular 10 or 12? I smell a loophole =p. An AI that plays tetris would be amazing even if it wasn't god awesome at it, as long as it learned how to do it on its own. I don't think thats the case in this situation. Still cool though. So ditto on BigLeon's comment. True tetris (in which pieces are randomly generated) cannot go on infinitely because of the nature of the 'z' and 's' pieces. Eventually you will get a string of unfitable pieces and loose, regardless of how fast and efficient you pack them. So score definitely != infinite.. What it comes down to with human players is getting a good system down then training it into intuition so that you are eventually just limited by the speed you can process them, and because of the random nature you can't get extremely efficient systems down because the rules change dramatically depending on what pieces you get and in what order, so its better to learn or memorize the 'rules' that work most broadly first then work into more specialized situations. Man now I feel like playing tetris again =p.. Also reminds me of a documentary I saw about Susan Pulga, the female chess master.
BigLeon rated 10 months ago
cool and all, but how is this AI? It's presumably still working within the boundaries set by the programmers..
bencoder rated 8 months ago
As an AI student, those who think this is trivial or pointless should know that tetris is a very hard problem to solve, for more information check out this paper: http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~edemaine/papers/Tetris_TR2002/paper.pdf Well, i was impressed by the video anyway.
Broodjeaap rated 10 months ago
It looks inefficient but it works :)
IamMack rated 10 months ago
A computer program playing the famous game tetris.
rjljr2 rated 10 months ago
Presumably it could go on forever? Score = Infinity