Playing Atari on RAM with Deep Q-learning (A.I. playing the 2600)

[AkashicRecord]

Stumbled across this one today and thought it was kind of interesting. It's essentially an A.I. network that learns to play Atari games by analyzing the system's RAM during gameplay. An earlier revision seems to have relied on video output to "learn" from, but this one uses the VCS' RAM. Kind of interesting!

 

https://deepsense.ai/playing-atari-on-ram-with-deep-q-learning/

 

Here is a SeaQuest run which seems to be better than the Breakout example on the page. You can see how it starts to learn where things are going to appear on screen before they do: