MarI/O Followup: Super Mario Bros, Donut Plains 4, and Yoshi's Island 1

welcome back settling here last week I released a video about a program that teaches itself to play various games called Mario if you haven't seen that video go ahead and click on the annotation on screen and go watch it because it'll explain everything about this video basically for the last week since I released a video I've been live streaming Mario's attempts to master other games and so I wanted to show you some of the progress it's made and some of the also that some of the failures its head we're going to start here with Super Mario Brothers this is the very first Mario platformer game and I'm starting with this one because at the end it did something kind of cool and unexpected and okay so it made good progress through this level very steady progress it took a little while it had a lot of trouble on the stairs of the end here it would often get stuck there for some reason anyway so it beat Mario the very first level and I programmed it so that it could actually continue on to other levels hoping that it would eventually beat the rest of the game and that isn't what happened it actually was not able to get past the second level here but it did something really cool and basically a lot of people are saying well okay you've built a neural network that's capable of beating a level of Mario but that neural network can only beat that level of Mario so it's not really useful but I think that's not true because as we'll see in a moment Mario actually discovered a glitch on its own that is could be useful to speedrunners I didn't know about this glitch apparently other people did know about it there you are right there it's kind of a little trick jump you're able to jump over the Koopa and get past it even though you're in a tiny little confined space and like I said I didn't know about this and if nobody else knew about it would be a new discovery here it is again in slow motion and it's a one frame jump you only have a one frame window to do it so it's really hard but still I think it's super cool that Mario was able to find a glitch on its own and imagine what other glitches it could find give it enough time okay so here we are on donut Plains for this is back in Super Mario World it had a lot of trouble with this wall right here because it spent the entire beginning of the level learning that it had to jump to get over obstacles and you have to not jump to get up this wall you have to run straight up it eventually got up it but then it got on this stone because after learning not to jump when there's something in front of it had had to figure out that it had to jump again so it had some difficulty but eventually got past that it was not able to finish the level because of this really tailpipe here you can't jump over that in one straight jump it's too tall for that what you're supposed to do is knock the hammer brother off and use his platform and I just thought Mario was not probably not gonna learn that so we aborted and moved on to Yoshi's Island one which you're seeing here and Yoshi's Island one is one of the first two levels that's available in Super Mario World from the very beginning so you'd think it should be really easy but it actually Mario had a lot of trouble learning it it took quite a while for it to make progress but it did make slow and steady progress at the end here there's a couple bullets bonzai bills that it just had a lot of trouble getting past and but I did eventually get past them and once it actually got past those two guys and also this pair of Rex's here actually just kind of beat the level without really needing to do any more learning and it did get a little bit lucky to go under this jumping chuck here so anyway I just thought I wanted to share this with you guys I don't think I'm done updating Mario but just wanted to show you the progress that's made so far so that's about it thanks for watching you

Channel: SethBling

Views: 851,485

Keywords: Super Mario World, SethBling, MarI/O, MarIO, Machine Learning, Neural Network, Evolution, Neuro-Evolution, Super Mario bros, Donut Plains, Yoshi's Island

Id: iakFfOmanJU

Length: 3min 49sec (229 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 20 2015