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Tetris AI System

Posted by michael on from the it's-better-than-you-are dept.

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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  1. The New 4th law... by gokubi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:The New 4th law... by GuyMannDude · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought Directive 4 was that any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP Corporation would result in immediate shutdown!

      GMD

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  2. Wow! by The_Rippa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now THAT's some serious nerding...too bad a feat like this does nothing to impress the ladies

    1. Re:Wow! by Bonker · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, to impress the ladies with an app like this, you need something that can optimally play The Sims so that you can arrange any given soap-opera scenario to your liking.

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    2. Re:Wow! by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know. Being able to use a computer to get the right long piece into the right slot could be useful. However it could end up like my old boost of having a big Wang in my bedroom. Girls always left somewhat disappointed.

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  3. A really useful tool... by ShawnDoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Great For Super Geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is great for the /.er who not only cant find a girlfriend and therefore is home playing tetris all Saturday night, but also cant find a friend to play tetris with. Just plug in your computerized friend and you will have fun all night long.


    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.

  5. Tetris Setup Photo by Indras · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone get this guy a Desktop Cleanup Wizard!. And I thought I had too many icons on my desktop...

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  6. As my Favorite Family Guy Character would Say by indigogorge.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Holy Crap!!! You mean I don't ever have to think again! Sweeeet!!"

  7. Penny Arcade movie suggestion by klang · · Score: 5, Funny

    see the new shape of fear this summer 2004

  8. Re:POV Tetris by ptrangerv8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    your light has gone out...
    if you move downward any fartheryou will be eaten by a grue
    you were eaten by a grue, please try again.
    (yes, mod me down, but it's still damn funny!)
    ;beer;

  9. Take it a step further by Stroman+Rebar · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't just stop with squads of computers hunting people over the net in FPS games. We can shrink them down put them in indestructible exoskeletons with nuclear batteries to hunt down actual people! Then we can wrap in fake skin and send them back in time to... uh...

    Never mind. It may not be that great of an idea

  10. Only a couple more steps. by mshiltonj · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  11. Re:Artificial Intelligence by lirkbald · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.