{"501841":{"#nid":"501841","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne group sponsored an annual Mario AI competition, Jordan Pearson reports for Motherboard, and a pair of Georgia Tech computer scientists named Mark Riedl and Matthew Guzdial have even built an AI that can design Super Mario Bros. levels from scratch. \u0022It is a bit more fast-paced and dynamic than the Atari games that many are currently using to test AI,\u0022 Riedl and Guzdial tell Pearson. \u0022The side-scrolling nature of the game means a lot of the game is unobservable to the AI, whereas many simpler arcade games have all information on screen at once.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/how-computers-learned-to-play-nintendo-180957125\/?no-ist\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/how-computers-learned-to-play-nintendo-180957125\/?no-ist\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/how-computers-learned-to-play-nintendo-180957125\/?no-ist\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28466","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:14:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:58","author":"Meghana Melkote","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Summer College Research Internship","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/how-computers-learned-to-play-nintendo-180957125\/?no-ist","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}