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Huh. I hadn't looked at it in a while. What I recall from when I last looked was that they were completely stuck on Mt. Moon. Looks like the repo, itself, doesn't contain the latest. They claim to have actually finished the game as of last month. Of course, there are a lot of caveats. They did significant simplification of the game, are using a bunch of scripts to provide extra guardrails, super detailed reward shaping (sometimes an ad hoc specific reward for a particular level), etc. The one that stood out to me originally is still there; they simply skip the entire first part of the game, because it was just failing, conceptually, to even get its first Pokemon or get the parcel to Prof. Oak or something (I don't remember exactly). It couldn't even get off the ground, so they literally just skip it.
These sorts of exercises are always delicate to comprehend, because it's almost never easy to figure out how to think about the unique ways they're inserting human expertise. Does it matter that mayyyybe it only needs a liiiiittle help on something that is bone stupid easy for a human, but incomprehensibly hard to whatever iteration AI we have? Will that get papered over suddenly in two months by some other method? Or is it just a limited tool that, with plenty of human expertise, guidance, and delicacy, can still do pretty phenomenal things? Who knows?
We are seeing a lot of pieces, and it's easy to imagine that if we just glue the right general-purpose version of those pieces together in the right way, it'll really soar. But there are still a lot of ways to be skeptical, and they happen to be concepts that are kind of hard to think about, given that we lack a really appropriate theory structure.
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