AI learns to re-create Super Mario Bros. by watching someone else play it

Usually, when we get AI systems to watch video games, we expect them to play the games afterward. That’s how computers have beaten everything from the board game Go to various Atari titles. But a group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are trying something different: they’re getting AI to learn how video games work instead.In a recent paper titled “Game Engine Learning from Video,” the team describes an AI system that can re-create the game engine of