1. This was a paper submitted for a joke conference. It is in no way a giant leap in AI. It is something that some nerds find amusing. Like an anti-Rube Goldberg machine. It is trying to accomplish something quite complex using a ridiculously stupid approach.
2. Its stupid because it is looking at the memory state as just a list of numbers that change during the gameplay. It has no knowledge of the actual game. It doesn't parse the memory to figure out game state or anything. It doesn't even have any generic idea of what games involve. It figures out "oo, the number that starts at location 243 goes up in the training data. I'll mash buttons to try to make memory location 243 go up".
1. This was a paper submitted for a joke conference. It is in no way a giant leap in AI. It is something that some nerds find amusing. Like an anti-Rube Goldberg machine. It is trying to accomplish something quite complex using a ridiculously stupid approach.
2. Its stupid because it is looking at the memory state as just a list of numbers that change during the gameplay. It has no knowledge of the actual game. It doesn't parse the memory to figure out game state or anything. It doesn't even have any generic idea of what games involve. It figures out "oo, the number that starts at location 243 goes up in the training data. I'll mash buttons to try to make memory location 243 go up".