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Tetris AI System
You've probably always wanted a system that reads a Tetris game via a webcam, decides the optimum move, and then inputs the commands to make that move, right? Well, now your prayers are answered.
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If they overcame the Clumsy-Ass Thumbs problem, this thing'll kick all our asses at 2-player! :)
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1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4. A robot must never place the long skinny ones horizontally, unless it leads to a long skinny vertical hole so 4 rows can be cleared at once the next time a long skinny one comes around.
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Now THAT's some serious nerding...too bad a feat like this does nothing to impress the ladies
Now if they would just adapt this to playing Solitare, I'd never have to come to work again! The computer could do my "job" for me.
That is until he beats you 27 times in a row and you throw your controller at his camera-head and cause him to crash.
Someone get this guy a Desktop Cleanup Wizard!. And I thought I had too many icons on my desktop...
The speed of time is one second per second.
The future is facing us now!, i dont think i could take an AIRCUH (AI remote controlled undetectable hack) for Counter Strike, life wont have a meaning anymore, damn hax0rs.
Sigs are for morons... Wait a minute...
"Holy Crap!!! You mean I don't ever have to think again! Sweeeet!!"
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Of course, you're also telling me to pick up a halibut and run through the workplace smacking coworkers upside the head as way of instructing them in Esperanto. I think I'll try and ignore those instructions, this time.
... but, quite frankly, I'm more impressed that his page with 1.22MB of data sent per hit is still loading fine after an old-fashioned Slashdotting!
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What I want is a multiplayer Tetris where I view the game from the tile's point of view. "You are looking down a deep chute, falling towards an irregular field of colored squares ...."
-kgj
Is anyone else reading "NP-Hard" as "No problem hard"? ;)
Confuses me everytime, maybe i've been abusing irc too much..
Tetris visual perception and AI decision making
Stage 3:
PROFIT!
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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If someone did create a doom playing AI via webcam, what would stop someone from straping it to a moble platform w/ a gun and letting it lose in the streets to shoot down anything that moves? :)
We actually need them in this article!!
The laws of Physics?
Never mind. It may not be that great of an idea
You've probably always wanted a system that reads a Tetris game via a webcam
Yes.
Very, very impressive.
If I may humbly suggest a few design improvements as you continue to develop the item:
1) Remove the electrical connections, and have it physically press the keys of the keyboard with a robotic arm of some sort.
2) Make it mobile, so it could, for instance, go in search of a tetris game, if it gets bored.
3) If it sees a tetris game being played, but doesn't have access to the keyboard, it can verbally (with synthesis) tell the player what to do. "left! left! rotate! rotate! drop!"
4) Trash talking. "I can't believe you dropped that there! What are you -- a carbon-based unit? go back to playing pong, you binary digit."
4) Global Thermonuclear War.
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The same guy is now retrofitting his contraption by pointing his webcam at his wife, and having Leisure Suit Larry's AI instruct him how to seduce her.
Fortunately, for the gene pool, he's finding that this problem has no solution, but mostly due to personal limitations.
How much further do you feel cheating can advance? In Counter-Strike, you can get cheats that will auto-aim on someone's head and fire for you. I really don't see what you would want more than that.
Best Counter Strike scene I've witnessed was somebody going idle to go eat. He tells everyone he is going away but forgets to turn his aimbot off. For a half hour he was completely idle and managed to get about 25 kills.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
What's with all the rubber bands on the relay board?
Ah, but you see THIS time, there's an answer!
Stage 2: Play tetris for money
I hear they have a very harsh anti-cheating policy there (i.e. they'll freeze all the money in your account and ban you if they even suspect you of cheating) but hey, it's still tetris for money.
nlh
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The AI was limited and I think a more accurate project for AI would be to actually host an AI service that offered network-accessed primitives for supreme entropy to contribute to a work of data; such centralized AI system would allow gamers as well as scientific computing to benefit from a verry good entropy pool of numbers as well as improve the funfactor of gaming.
Y'know, I read through that several times, and I still don't know what it says. I'm pretty sure the poster didn't either.
When I saw the title, I thought they finally revealed that Tetris has a massively advanced and evil AI designed to frustrate the player. It analyses your gameplay and knows exactly what pieces you want and don't want...
Even my tinfoil hat can't stop it from reading my mind.
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