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"After 13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first human to beat the original
Nintendo version of Tetris, he dedicated his special win to his father, who
passed away in December 2023.
The Oklahoma teen beat the game by defeating level after level until he reached
the “kill screen” – that is, the moment when the Tetris artificial intelligence
taps out in exhaustion, stopping play because its designers never wrote the
code to advance further. Before Gibson, the only other player to overcome the
game’s AI was another AI.
For any parent who has despaired over their children sinking countless hours
into video games, Gibson’s victory over the cruel geometry of Tetris stands as
a bracing corrective.
Despite the stereotypes, most gamers are anything but lazy. And they’re
anything but mindless.
The world’s top players can sometimes serve as reminders of the best in us,
with memorable achievements that range from the heroic to the inscrutably
weird."
This is a very loose use of the term “AI”. Most people would just write
“program” and not ascribe any “intelligence” to it, since there is no learning
of any kind involved.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
