Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning

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Sections:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - How it works
2:54 - Let the games begin
4:04 - Exploration, distraction
5:46 - Level reward
6:38 - Viridian Forest
8:06 - A new issue
8:44 - PC Trauma
10:10 - Healing
10:45 - Gym Battle
12:43 - Route 3
14:44 - Mt Moon
15:54 - Map Visualizations
18:53 - RNG manipulation
20:07 - First Outro
20:26 - Technical Intro, Challenges
21:44 - Simplify
22:43 - Efficient Iteration
23:56 - Environment, Reward function
26:26 - Metrics & Visualization
27:46 - Future Improvements
29:24 - Run it yourself
32:58 - Final Outro

[@deesh6378]

An AI being traumatized by using a pc is the most ironic thing I've heard in a while

[@mcstrategist]

Haven't you seen twitch plays pokemon? PCs are a death sentence!

[@nimi-nae]

I didn't even make that connection 😂

[@derrickkamphaus8743]

@@mcstrategistI remember that. People were spamming. To get rid of pokemon. They had to ban people and make rules. That was pretty hilarious though.

[@derrickkamphaus8743]

@@nimi-naesame. But yeah that’s pretty funny

[@Kurayamiblack]

Sudden excessive punishment against a curiosity traumatizes first time experiencer Seems all too legit 😅

[@markcooper4876]

I laughed so hard when the AI refused to press the A button when it lost.

[@MP-lv5vk]

Stalling to avoid the outcome confirmation. Reminds me of young children, actually. Haha

[@JohnnyNatrium]

@@MP-lv5vk Sometimes the sound of a door slamming because of a gust of wind can remind me of children slamming their hands on a table. There is ZERO connection/homology between anything in the bot produced behavior, and the realm of human motivation or other emotions. It is logically impossible to learn anything about humans from literally everything about this showcase except by observing the actual human who decided to create this mathematical formula of instructions (algorithm) to a low level brute force bot.

[@kphaxx]

@@JohnnyNatrium Yeah but it reminds me of children's stubbornness lmao

[@marcelgonzalez1151]

Children can be the sorest losers, refusing to keep playing is hilarious 😂

[@Loliconman]

The only winning move is not to play.

[@cappuccinocappy]

I dunno why but the clips were all the AIs aimlessly walk around like a colony of small ants is unbelievably adorable to me

[@sugabopp]

holy shit ai are the ants. or are ants the ai?

[@Toolazytothinkofagoodhandle]

I’m so glad you didn’t stop when you said “this sounds like a reasonable stopping point”

[@butterfish6799]

“The ai is learning how to move, and is just walking around” really explains a lot of my online teammates in first person shooters.

[@jeffwooten6888]

Bots

[@Johnrick90]

Like my team mates in LoL

[@hallmark1]

Lvl 1 lukes in star wars battlefront 2 hvv

[@porkhill6665]

Npcs playing npcs 😢😮

[@IschmarVI]

@@jeffwooten6888"bot" sounds so negative. Maybe we should start calling them "reinforcemenrt learners" instead.

[@Hitmonstahp]

it was unreasonably adorable when the AI stopped in Pallet Town to enjoy the scenery

[@azukar8]

Seconded

[@AyaxTheDragon]

The AI is cute

[@htspencer9084]

Based AI knows true happiness.

[@Trashley652]

Ok but did you see the little dance after beating the bug catcher on the first try?

[@kratangg-arang]

Yeessss I envision it talking everything in with a solemn smile, knowing that it’s about to leave this quaint town on a grand adventure of trials and learning. ‘Just one more moment at the banks of this familiar lake, then I’ll be off…’

[@brandonbrsndon]

i love that the AI decided to just hang out and watch the scenery. reminds me of my favorite poem “Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” by Robert Frost

[@piciperkuadrik4636]

Everybody likes Robert Frost

[@danielserrano929]

I’ve done this many times in my play throughs with Pokémon, it’s actually scary how much the AI “mimics” human behavior.

[@aceq361]

​@@piciperkuadrik4636not True I actually HATE Robert Frost

[@lateusbetelgeuse]

Since I'm all into both Pokémon and coding, KZbin suggested your video just minutes after you uploaded it. I subscribed after a few minutes watching it, and now I watched it again and noticed you have almost 50k subscribers! With just one video! Please take that as a public, worldwide testament of the effort you have put into this. Thank you so much!

[@DruggiePlays]

Broke yt 😂

[@t2g648]

If you like Pokemon and AI, you'll love this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYjae3evd61rn8k&ab_channel=Spawnvilley

[@Tommybgoode]

The AI is cool and all, lots of comments discussing it, but. I just wanna say, the editing is so awesome for a video like these, you don't often see such excellent presentation

[@tytonus-burman1183]

I'm honestly baffled by how this was animated. How did you get the scenes with the thousands of character sprites moving about, all overlapping one another?

[@patrickjones3826]

@@tytonus-burman1183 all is revealed at 26:27

[@scotthuber8536]

200% this. Not only taking on the entire workload of the project, but taking the time making such an enjoyable and informative visual aid is stellar!

[@XistenceX1]

​@@tytonus-burman1183 Yeah that's what's wild, the AI stuff is sick, but the editing to show the iterations had me fucking floored.

[@maxmuller6730]

I just thought the same, the presentation is amazing 👏

[@pengwino828]

The ai discovering rng manipulation is mindblowing. I wonder if games in future could use ai to learn tedious or very specific glitches during beta testing.

[@antoinecharbonneau5108]

They already do!

[@NinjaArmy36]

Dude it clicked as he was explaining it "wasn't optimal" but also repeating and I was like "NOOOOOOO!!!"

[@user-kt6ne3fx6u]

Why bother?

[@veto_5762]

@@user-kt6ne3fx6u simple, ai thinks and tries things different to a human, it could discover stuff the devs wouldn't even imagine it was possible

[@snowolf494]

This is an elaborate version of fuzz testing, which is the act of feeding random data to a program to see how it react.

[@willianrocha5475]

As a Pokemon enthusiast with 4 Pokemon tattoos and a data analyst aspiring to become a data scientist, this project was one of the coolest to watch! I was so fascinated that I decided to replicate the project myself. I encountered some difficulties along the way, but the Discord community was incredibly helpful. Congratulations on the project! 🙌

[@mishi6525]

I'm deeply impressed by how the AI, despite being non-human, developed opinions and experiences so similar to ours. Huge respect for the dedication it took to create this.

[@JohnnyNatrium]

It did nothing whatsoever of anything that you said there. You are falling into logical fallacies by attributing human experiences to the outward behavior of a completely braindead brute force bot which was fed explicit formulaic instructions.

[@halfpace1462]

Well ​@@JohnnyNatrium, it's incredibly common for humans to attribute human qualities and personify things that are clearly dead/braindead. It's common human behavior. The same reason many people believe plants feel pain when being cut or bugs can feel love.

[@JohnnyNatrium]

@@halfpace1462 Of course. Did I say I am surprised that humans anthropomorphize things? I'm taking issue with the fact that people are mistaking this poetry for actual scientific homology and coming to almost scarily fallacious conclusions and claims based on this bias, including the narration in this video.

[@halfpace1462]

@@JohnnyNatrium Well said. You can't blame the narrator for this as this increases engagement in the viewers by a significant margin as seen by the comments, I agree that people are acting like this is actual poetry when it's not, but there is a certain comforting feeling about the process of the AI learning even if it's just a brute force robot. It's hard to take issue with the things people interpret as because it is simply human nature, even if taking issue with them is understandable.

[@bob8mybobbob]

@@JohnnyNatriumand I think you’re misinterpreting people’s comments. Of course the AI wasn’t actually traumatized by the computer. But that’s the best way to describe it using common and brief language. And someone saying “the AI reminds me of this human behavior” is probably not someone who thinks that the AI is developing sentience, but rather pointing the hilarity of similar actions by two wildly different things.

[@kylehill]

This was extremely well made. Great job

[@GameTimeWhy]

Holy cannoli it's science boi Kyle "Thor" Hill with his locks in the wild.

[@draaaven157]

I see we spend our sunday nights similarly. Lmfao.

[@buddycal1]

This is honestly one of the best endorsements this video could have

[@BigBaadMark12]

I’m certain the algorithm recommended me this video because of your comment

[@Big_Biba]

Its the goat 🐐

[@DolanDarker]

This must've taken an insane amount of time to not only simulate but also edit, really good video, nice work

[@MoazSalama-ly5jf]

Omg Dolan you fucking legend where you been

[@MrGoodeats]

rN6media does the edits

[@anouaressanoussi]

Have you forgotten your password?

[@Hawk7886]

​@@anouaressanoussiobviously not

[@itsOZone]

​@@MrGoodeatsyeah most youtubers dont edit their own content anymore

[@brandonvolesky9867]

Your findings, implementation, logic, and ANIMATION is incredible. 👏👏

[@elrudiiisimo3066]

I’m not sure if you noticed this or not Peter, but this is historic. In terms of R&D and just human science. Very impressed with this creativity and passion. Cheers 🥂

[@kaComposer]

Genuinely blown away by the many high level skills this takes. On top of that, you have an incredible ability to teach high level concepts to a lay audience. Very rare!

[@PantheraTK]

@@kaComposer Agree. This level of technical ability plus storytelling ability is magnificent.

[@ArmoredarmadilloX]

Honestly the AI becoming traumatized from the PC was heartbreaking. Poor lil guy didnt understand what happened

[@istumby]

My heart dropped when it was revealed he never went back to the Pokémon center afterwards, I felt so bad for the guy.

[@hunterwylie6969]

@@istumbyright? Just imagine how rewarding it would’ve been to gain those total levels back! Probably would’ve broken the reward system, as there’s nothing keeping the AI from depositing the Pokémon just to get rewards for pulling it back out.

[@Yelonek1986]

@@hunterwylie6969 Deposit, withdraw, deposit, withdraw like a junkie.

[@nousukas]

"The Pokémon center stole my only squirtle!"

[@kdsavage1991]

Don't feel bad, they learn as they go!

[@olemew]

That whole traumatic experience with the PC and the Pokecenter was fascinating. Thank you for making this

[@jeremycontreras6229]

The poor AI aww 😢❤

[@whirlpoolstudio97]

It triggered my Twitch Plays Pokemon PTSD

[@Spooglecraft]

the analogies between human behavior and AI behavior were quite interesting in general, though the trauma sticks out. also kinda makes you think about ourselves, doesn't it? after all, this is ultimately just a statistic algorithm with a simple reward system, but it manages to show some rather lifelike emergent behaviors, which weren't inherently programmed it. then again, pretty much all of life is not that different, the model and algorithm are just much bigger and more granular and complex.

[@perrowason5096]

Indeed it happened to me when i was young, i didnt know how to withow pkmn bc the storage system was a mess so i didnt use the pc anymore xd

[@shanemorris3554]

Reminds me of the trauma triggered whenever Twitch plays pokemon went near the computer after they accidentally released all those pokemon haha!

[@e4e5e2e7]

Extremely impressive visualization of the simultaneous iterations. It can be hard to grasp that machine learning is happening in batches of mass parallel attempts, not each progressive scenario after another one by one. Excellent video!

[@DNAngelOtaku]

how many grew a gambling addiction trying to win an eevee?

[@livingdamen4363]

No one since you get it for free as a gift in one of the rooftops lol 😂

[@timothypickarski5234]

Not that I don’t love the videos that just say “I applied an AI to this game and here’s how long it took to finish it” but this video (in addition to its high quality visuals and great script) is so much beyond that. Instead of just watching a video on AI, we’re learning about reward implementation, the human condition, curiosity, and more and more. This went above and beyond, I was so rooting for our AI buddy by the end of this lol.

[@hciasdhi]

You're right! This feels like an in depth, academic essay

[@wiiu-theunderratedconsole7569]

I want to see the AI beating the game

[@DigitalIndra]

"Just hanging out and admiring the scenery, is more rewarding than exploring the rest of the world." Never have I felt more like a machine learning algorithm than this sentence right here.

[@harm991]

The digital world is more rewarding than the real world

[@ceigey-au]

Very relatable outcome!

[@counterleo]

Me too, why bother capturing and fighting when you can just chill and enjoy the motion of leaves and waves? Quite poetic

[@menerdo]

5 mil on your first video. Great quality, good research and break down. Congrats, can't wait to see what you bring next!

[@carterkal2918]

Clicked on this for pokemon, stayed for a philosophy lesson

[@jondebeer6863]

As a physicist i appreciate those visualizations. This is truly remarkable content.

[@aurelia8028]

wtf does you being a physicist have to do with anything? guess you just wanted attention.

[@hornoxthekingslayer8100]

If you ever do have the AI finsih the game, I think it would be really cool if you let the same AI try Pokemon Gold. I think seeing if an AI trained on Gen 1 could play Gen 2 that would be an interesting experiment

[@zeebo30]

Obviously it'd have to relearn how to navigate the map, but it'd probably do well in battles since it already knows how

[@johnhamilton5431]

It wouldn't be able to catch the farfetchd or use cut This game would fail too with the hm's

[@geekygecko1849]

I'm going to do this as a project for my machine learning class, and I am planning on trying the same algo on Gen 2.

[@lpsfoxstar8454]

do make a video@@geekygecko1849

[@MizChivVvOzZz]

​@@geekygecko1849how can I follow along?

[@Lelouch999]

I’m thoroughly impressed by this video. Rarely someone executes an idea to this level of clarity. Visually it is very easy to understand what’s going on as well. Plus you’re sharing the project with everyone. Keep up the hard work

[@McDonaldsCalifornia]

Incredibly well made video! I think your resourcefulness and ability to explain things in non-technical terms shows a deep understanding of the topic. Plus the storytelling is top notch

[@eddie7252]

I honestly expected this video to be from a youtuber with thousands of subscribers, to see that you only have 60 baffles me, this is an incredibly well-made and well-put together video.

[@viperific3410]

yeah i thought the same, its gone up to 400 now but still nuts

[@androsp9105]

tbf, it's his first video.

[@viperific3410]

@@androsp9105 yeah I only realised that after I left this comment, even more nuts lmao

[@Station9.75]

He’s gained nearly 5,000 in a few days. Very good going.

[@AwesomeHairo]

Misuse of commas.

[@aylakoch4516]

This was edited and put together so amazingly well. I haven’t even finished yet- I just needed to express my gratitude that you took the time to not only complete this project but edit the process in such a visibly appealing way. Thanks for 33 genuinely enjoyable minutes!

[@dognigga]

shit was boring asf, felt like a lecture lol

[@faith9505]

A Happy Way to Live The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded. -Luke 12:37 All around us we can see fulfilled Bible prophecies, signs indicating that the return of Jesus Christ is drawing near. As followers of Christ, we should be watching for Him. We need to be ready to go. Jesus, speaking about His return, said, “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning, as though you were waiting for your master to return from the wedding feast. . . . The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded” (Luke 12:35-37) Are you ready for His return? To be ready means to be engaged in activities that you wouldn’t be ashamed to be doing if Jesus were to return. It’s a good idea to periodically ask ourselves this question: This place that I am about to go, this thing that I am about to do, would I be embarrassed if I were doing it when Jesus came back?” Think about your plans. Is there anything you will be doing today, tonight, or tomorrow that you would be ashamed to do if Christ were to return? If so, then change your plans. You want to be ready for His return. Not only should we be ready, but we should anxiously await the return of Christ. We used to have a German Shepherd who slept outside the bedroom, leaning against our door. We didn’t let him sleep in our room because he often had nightmares and would wake us up. Every morning when we opened the door, he rolled into the room. Then he’d jump up and start running in circles. He was genuinely happy to see us. That is how we should be waiting for Christ’s return. And anything that might prevent us from saying “Come quickly, Lord Jesus” is out of place in our lives. In addition to waiting, we should be working. Every now and then, someone predicts that Jesus will return on a specific date. People believe these predictions and start quitting their jobs or divorcing their spouses. But that is not what we should be doing as we wait for the return of Christ. Instead, we should be working for Him. The Bible says, “Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works” (James 2:26) If watching is the evidence of faith, then working is the evidence of faith in action. Watching for the Lord’s return will help us prepare our own lives. But working will ensure that we bring others with us to Heaven. The great British preacher C. H. Spurgeon said, “It is a very blessed thing to be on the watch for Christ. . . . You can be poor without murmuring; you can be rich without worldliness; you can be sick without sorrowing; you can be healthy without presumption. If you are always waiting for Christ’s Coming, untold blessings are wrapped up in that glorious hope” When you live in the anticipation of Christ’s return, it’s a happy way to live.

[@dtolud]

everything about this video is extremely well done, even the editing , i think big bro is an actual genius

[@000glowinthedark000]

I can't wait for this project to hopefully continue in the future. This was so well done

[@chrispyvolterra]

This is their first KZbin Upload, it’s crazy to me how much work, effort and money went into its production without having built an audience on an already successful channel before. Mad props to you Peter.

[@chrispyvolterra]

I am looking forward to see what else you will create.

[@notavailable947]

He is an employee of Amazon Headquarters in Seattle 👏🏽👌🏽 He is smart af

[@turingtestingmypatience]

watching the little reds go round like an ant colony brings me so much joy and i don't know why. look at them all exploring. learning. discovering the world. lil guys. thank you for spending at least 1000USD and several hours putting this together just for me to uncontrollably laugh at the reds for 20 minutes ..with that out of the way, fantastic video. incredibly readable visuals and clear voiceover, awesome topic, understandable for several levels of previous knowledge. can see this hitting the high hundred thousands.

[@raula6533]

I was looking for this comment because I thought the same!!! It was like watching ants!! Just amazing!! This video exploded my mind... Imagine a Pokemon game were you can compete against a real "rival" (blue) in real time just to see who wins the league first... And every run the rival gets different pokemons with different moves... This guy is just insane, this is like a Pandora box!!!! New sub for sure!!!! And thank you for this video Peter!!!!!

[@telprydain1]

Such an amazing first video - can't wait to see what you do next.

[@woodybutler]

The fact you walk through running everything for everyone else is so generous. Thanks!

[@fartmicrowave]

I'm so glad the KZbin algorithm decided to recommend your video and I clicked on it. It's a fascinating thing to watch the process and journey that the AI goes through, while the presentation of the whole video is equally fantastic. Great video, you all deserve a round of applause for the effort and quality put into this whole project.

[@BlackScytheLP]

Haven't even finished the video yet, but I want this to pop off in the Algorythm, this video had tons of efforts put into it, and deserves to get out there.

[@Neo_Data]

I've got some good news for you, that's how I found this video

[@esotericraime1441]

The algorithm brought me here

[@auraonline9073]

Guess I'll throw on a comment too then. This is great!

[@pionaiz]

yesss this was so cool

[@aaronhpa]

Thanks then

[@ideannassiri9672]

this man releases a single video in his career and makes the front page, keep the sick vids coming clearly a big name in the making dude you got this

[@dala555]

1 video, 55k subs, 5.7M views. This is historic

[@songofalchemy]

Insanely well made video, rare that I want to go out of my way to share videos with people but this is really impressive. Lots of extra "human lessons" in here that you glossed over, like the Pokémon Center trauma for example. Super good man

[@MichaelCrecker]

The AI naming Squirtle “AAAAAAAAAA” killed me! 😂Thanks, amazing content.

[@RevanBC]

AI picked the Squirtle in Pokemon Red lol what a contrarian

[@Tropictopic69]

i was hoping someone else had mentioned this

[@Tyler-qh7bf]

@@RevanBC that was its only option...

[@RevanBC]

@@Tyler-qh7bf No you can pick 2 other pokemon! idiot.

[@sergeantjoe6802]

Pigeoto was ‐-----------

[@steven-mz3jf]

Seeing high effort videos like these from relatively low sub channels always surprises me. Definitely deserves more recognition/subs.

[@napoleonbonerfarte6739]

It's the only video on bro's account lmfao wdym

[@RandyGBH]

@@napoleonbonerfarte6739lol was about to write this too

[@abhishekkoundal584]

Good things take time

[@absolutelyfookinnobody2843]

And people who over react to low sub channels being high quality doesn't surprise me. Lots and lots of dumdums out there

[@kboss1998]

This is a masterpiece! I really respect you that made all of these including video editing. What a talent!

[@NaudVanDalen]

This video is amazing! The AI part must have taken hundreds of hours or even over 1000 and the editing must have taken dozens of hours. Almost 5 million views and 50k subscribers in 2 months is a lot and well deserved.

[@jdllim]

It's one thing to set all this up, and it's another to visualize and present it in such a coherent and digestible way. You did both so well! Hope to see more content from you in the future

[@user-vs3fv1ii1o]

Agreed! This video is insane!

[@youngsdiscovery8909]

I can't believe it's done by individual. Super high quality.

[@SplishySploshy]

As a psych prof I'm always trying to think of different ways to explain certain concepts and give relatable examples, and this one is perfect!

[@MasteringSilence]

They tell me I’m crazy here 🤪

[@norabarlow17]

​@@MasteringSilenceCrazy? I was crazy once

[@MasteringSilence]

@@norabarlow17 you only lose your mind once… They put me in a rubber room with rubber rats…

[@knockout8157]

@@norabarlow17they locked me in a room. A rubber room with rats.

[@charpool169]

As a psych professor can you explain the appeal to these people repeating the copy paste comments? Also just to be clear I'm also asking out of genuine curiosity if there may be psychological reasons past the basic wanting to be a part of something, and not just trying to hate on them or anything ✌

[@Prince_Oli]

I cannot believe i am actually watching this intently. Its so fascinating! And how you apply the AIs experiences with that of a human's experience in the real world is exceptionally well done. Good job mate!

[@blindcatdonovan229]

That reinforcement training for AI is technically the same as pure clicker training (positive reinforcement) for animals, where you have to train them by only rewarding tiny steps torwards the goal. Anyone being advanced in that field would be a great choice to give ideas for how to train those AIs

[@MrCmon113]

I think that's more like curriculum learning. In the purest form of reinforcement learning you don't encode your knowledge on how to solve a problem in the reward function.

[@BryceHuston]

They told me my Pokémon phase would pass. Little did they know, it was just evolving into an AI obsession!

[@sanjaywilson8232]

Pokémaniac Bryce Huston wants to battle!

[@ashashii911]

​@@sanjaywilson8232LMAO!

[@30303Steve]

*Pokemon Trainer Battle Theme starts playing*

[@821aq]

Edit : Go Lucario ! Fight Pokemon Bag Run away

[@user-io6ww9uv7e]

This might be the coolest video of AI playing a video game I've ever seen. I love all the fascinating emergent behaviours (especially the RNG manipulation), as well as the analogies you draw to humans. I also love that you presented the technical explanations in a way that allowed me understand almost everything without any programming knowledge, just a decent understanding of AI. Genuinely amazing job, I hope to see more like this in the future! :)

[@ToGham21]

It's a very qualitative video All the screens view and different IA moving make it very pleasant to watch! Thanks

[@LPcrazy_88]

Holy crap this is your very first YT video? I can't wait to see what you cook up if you continue to create! Outstanding work!

[@clickpwn]

Tbh I didn’t know youtube algorithm allowed channel with 1 video to pop off like this. Over 1 million views in 7 days?? If this video was posted in a sizable channel, it might have been even 10 times more.

[@bilibangbang]

he paid for the view XD@@clickpwn

[@sarkhaaan]

@@bilibangbanghow you know that?

[@stonybaboon]

It gets better when u go into the git-hub project and find out that he has been working on this for the last 2 years...

[@blake..-]

@@bilibangbangmald

[@flicmylich]

Bro honestly this is KZbin video of the year. How spectacularly you presented this information in such a clear and entertaining way that is honestly on the level of professional science productions like Cosmos. Absolutely colossal performance man. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had an entire production team.

[@peterwhidden]

thank you for the kind words :) no production team, but my friend @torinblankensmith made the thumbnail

[@lovol2]

I second this. I'm super interested in the content, but at the same time I'm like.... However did he make this look so good.

[@glupshitto1977]

It’s not that deep dude holy shit

[@Tom-yg7mi]

@@glupshitto1977 its deep.. learning.

[@8260christian]

@@Tom-yg7mi get out

[@MrRaveHaven]

Amazing model organization and execution, amazing post production, amazing communication of novel and or complex concepts in a way everyone can understand. Well done and well worth the multi million likes you’ve gotten

[@freshcupofjoel3000]

More more more! What an outstanding first video! Can't wait for more from you!

[@joshuasims5421]

That was incredible! I’ve always wondered if this was possible, I’m blown away by what the AI was able to learn! The visualizations and presentation were excellent, I hope this video reaches a wide audience!

[@memetech-]

"ooh, what's this place?" "deposit Pokemon?" "AAAAAAHHHHHHH" *never returns*

[@dead0barbie]

superb video, text and learning, good job! Also, on the relatableness of experience, occurrences and patterns, there's memetic we use now more than ever to render perceptible the archetypal moment in videogames where a point of inflection occurs and hold a certain humour that we choose to transmit via memes later on.

[@ryplecuk767]

Trainer: Dude, cmon! you lost! go away!. Red: No, i didn't.

[@RageAgainstTheTards]

This was awesome, I'd love to see a full series of the AI completing the game.

[@user-pv4cw3du2p]

Yes!!

[@tsunalein]

downloaded it and train the ai more

[@cassidy8307]

And then i'd like to see it completing the game as fast as possible. An AI speedrun competition: winner gets 100,000 arbitrary points

[@dralinkushinen]

Just 10 minutes in, and it has already gotten so damn interesting! The behaviors, the systems, the events, the unexpected but explainable scenarios, the AI literally experiencing something comparable to trauma? I want to see more!

[@kaelthunderhoof5619]

The Red swarm wasn't enough?

[@kaio0777]

me too sad when he stop at moon mt.

[@Elintasokas]

The AI doesn't experience anything because it's not a conscious entity. It experiences as much as Microsoft Word when you open it.

[@alexb8926]

@@Elintasokas😅😂😂

[@JamanWerSonst]

@@Elintasokas Based on my PCs heavy breathing when I open Word I assume its orgasming.

[@Distractionn-CG_5945]

This was absolutely amazing, my friend! Please do more of these! I must admit I was disappointed that you didn't do the whole game 😂

[@yusukeurameshi500]

We need more! this was so fascinating, informative and entertaining. I hope your able to make an ai finish the game one day, it would make for one hell of a video! Thank you!!

[@SpaghettiRoad]

This is the coolest video I have ever seen! You did beautiful job visualising all the games being played simultaneously.

[@brubru9663]

Where are the uploads

[@matteoemanuele-gi4jk]

Fellas, I'm an AI engineer, with a short background in Reinforcement Learning for a period I interacted with Sony for a job. I need you to understand the MAGNITUDE of these results. It's an insane work, and I'm sad that probably only a few might understand the sheer amount of skill require to do this. Insane job man, you are a goat

[@dkm9090]

This is no understatement . This takes a level of focus and problem solving that is just not normal. Savage!

[@bricegardner7815]

I’m not even an engineer, and my jaw is on the ground. I genuinely would love to learn how to become a part of this world. I wish there were more people in my circle with hobbies and fascinations like this. I used to help write xml codes for world of Warcraft bots when I was a kid. Now laying in bed with an alarm set for five hours from now. I’ve got a sales job… is 33 years old too old to learn how to work in this scene? This video drips with knowledge, and a wisdom and understanding of something that I have no idea how to even begin to approach. Kudos!!

[@alr9447]

I wouldnt say those results are impressive theory wise ? The impressiveness of the work comes from a technical point of view, how great he managed to link the RL model with the game and the fine-tuning he put in it. By the way, AI engineer doesnt really mean anything, what is your job title ? Out of curiosity

[@harshrajjadhav940]

​@bricegardner7815 no age is too high. With enough determination and curiosity you can definitely pivot. Look into videos explaining the skills required to get a job in game development/ AI.

[@matteoemanuele-gi4jk]

@@alr9447 I am officially a data scientist, but within the team I'm the guy responsible of the training of the ML models, therefore I make this distinction because nowadays "data scientist" is too broad. In most big tech companies, AI engineer is a common notation to distinguish between the data science folks

[@Liquid_Joe]

Very impressive. I'm looking forward to any future content you upload

[@mateuscrevelin3394]

First and only video of the channel and it already is a banger like this... Great work there amigo. Btw. I really appreciate you leaving the project opensource. I hope I can improve it in some way in my own experiments...

[@plasmakitten4261]

This is like such a classic example of how AI thinks differently from humans. It can't figure out how to get past a ledge but its pattern recognition is so strong that it figured out friggin RnG manipulation by itself.

[@NikhilAutar]

We humans also have reward systems. Everything "living" does. It's different to an AI model. But who's to say that we're not just an AI model with different base rewards?

[@plasmakitten4261]

@@NikhilAutar The term "artificial" is meaningless unless it's being used to mean "made by humans". Since we didn't design ourselves, we aren't AI by any useful meaning of the term. But at the core, this way of designing AI is designed to mimic how humans learn, so you're not far off.

[@ryanwirawan5012]

Not only the pokemon gains EXP points, the AI gains EXP too

[@NikhilAutar]

@@plasmakitten4261 We'd be artificial to whoever designed us/this haha

[@cs16Tactics]

I think completely opposite :D This (video) was prime example of how phenomenons that happens with humans can be put into numbers used by AI learning. Our learning = pattern recognitions based on the rewards we've gotten. They aren't as vivid with "Getting 3 points on catching pokemon", but rather intuitive that happens automatically.

[@JoaoMorais-ee1oq]

Everything about this was amazing, the computational approach, the video edit, the tone, the explanations and the real life parallels. Beautiful work!

[@Myla-zl4jv]

I absolutely love you bringing up the parallels to human evolution and psychology. We really can learn a good bit about ourselves through ai

[@elizabethburns-gundel1052]

I love how you equated the AI actions with human actions. This was fascinating. Great editing work.

[@Solsumi]

Dropping a comment to help the algorithm. This video honestly deserves millions of views. I love the part where the AI learned to RNG manip to catch a Rattata. It's one of those moments that's unexpected at first but when you go back and look at it it's like, "oh, of course it would react like that!" Moments like those are why I love AI learning videos like this.

[@trbremm]

I really like how grounded and transparent your breakdown of the AI capabilities and limitations is, it shows it as a tool and not as a magical solve-all-problems strategy. Also, what a masterful storyteller and explainer you are. This video is very well paced and laid out, congrats!

[@SSGoatanks]

Yes it's limited but imagine what it could become in a few more years 🤖

[@krownz6171]

I cant be the only one waiting for a new Video from this guy. This video got stuck in my mind since watching and im waiting for new content since that day. Hopefully you will bless us soon again, can't wait

[@Spuddy987]

This is cool. I’ve seen plenty of these ai videos on different games but this one has gone the most in depth to the technical side of it. I am very interested in learning more now

[@Emerald-Fluffie]

Residents of viridian city watching in horror as the swarm of Reds rapidly engulfs the city

[@Hateburn]

I remember back when there were 1 or 2 reinforcement learning videos on YT. Now we get all sorts. But this one...this one is special. The production value here is excellent. Thanks for all of your hard work.

[@QoStoOds]

Breaking down some really cool tech for the layman just earned you another sub! Great video mate 👍

[@jonathanlunger2775]

I love this video, idk what you have planned for the future of this channel, but I can't wait to see it!

[@SevereMalfunction7]

this is honestly worthy of an entire course's final project at the graduate level. Thank you for making this freely available!

[@warmcat]

Isn’t it just! I’m currently half way through my final project for my MSc, with a relatively shit regression model predicting energy usage. 😂

[@henriquemagalhaessoares8739]

This was an amazing project and explanation. You should submit this to The Journal of Geek Studies if you don't have a publication lined up already.

[@seveneyes77]

Wah is that a thing?

[@henriquemagalhaessoares8739]

@@seveneyes77 Yep! They are an online publication that uses geek culture as a way to popularize science. They had a bunch of articles from the biology if final fantasy monsters to the effectiveness of super man disguise.

[@AnAfinityForKarma]

This was so much fun to watch, and I have no idea how it works - that’s all you buddy, fantastic quality of video. Really looking forward to seeing an AI speedrun in this format if it’s even possible 😊

[@tripleeyeemoji2685]

I wouldn’t be surprised if big companies haven’t reached out to employ you based on this work. Good job brother.

[@ChacalLoL]

As a Data Scientist, this was amazing to watch :) well done !

[@antonioiniguez1615]

I wanted to be a Data Scientist then I realized I couldn't code😂

[@MarcusTheDorkus]

Right off the bat I like this video because it actually goes into detail on how success is defined. Way too often this is skipped over and it absolutely breaks my brain because the implication of not covering this is that the AI somehow figured things out without any sort of goals defined.

[@Gambleraddict79]

adding ai to Pokémon added absuloutely nothing to the game. same idea as staring out a window and twiddling your thumbs worthless NPC behavhiour

[@SelfSimilarJosh]

Phenomenal video with wonderful visualizations, great practical comparisons, and great educational content. No doubt, you've inspired many people to learn more about AI.

[@pumpkinkingbones]

As much as I love everything in your video and the time/thought you put into it, I’m also glad you got a large amount of views and subscribers. Something with this much effort deserves appreciation no matter how small or large a channel is. The fact this is your first video for this channel inspires me a lot to continue editing my own videos, despite the time it takes to get it done. I hope to follow your journey as you come out with more videos like this, keep it up!

[@AMNEZ1A]

This video reminds me of when I got Pokemon Yellow as a kid, I didn't read/speak english so I just had to try things to learn what everything did and was. It's weird how similar the AI playing feels to my experiences as a kid. The Pokemon games (among TV and other games) actually helped me learn english at the age of 9 far before my classmates could and as a little extra ROM hacking got me into graphic design and coding/web development somehow. Pokemon in general is the base of my origin story.

[@kaio0777]

damn bro that is deep.

[@Edoss98]

Me with Spanish at 3 years old and English at 2 ahah Pokemon Azul and Pokemon Red 😅

[@joaofernandes6349]

When I first played Pokemon, just like yourself I was still a kid didn't know any English so I couldn't even save. The first few months was just like the AI, start from that little room and trial and error.

[@2006HondaCivicD]

Hello fellow ESL player, i was like 5 when I got my first hand on pokemon. I was EXTREMELY upset when I accidentally start over the game (the copy was second hand and the saved file is from my older brother who already completed the game.) that I cried. I lost my brother's charizard, even the moltres he caught with an ultra ball because i couldnt understand a lick of English back then - overwriting his save accidentally, and I just love exploring the pokemon world more than battling them. Only then 3 whole years later when I did restart and beat pokemon on my own, around 12 I became competently aiming to "gotta catch em all".

[@mischavandenburg]

“Just hanging out and admiring the scenery is more rewarding than exploring the world” Amazing work Peter! I look forward to see how this will progress

[@Sound_Tech]

Dayum, 5m views on your only video. Incredibly well made, thanks. Your observation that the game's audio, graphics, and logic is stored in less than a MB doesn't surprise me. I once saw a video essay about how our modern wealth of processing power and storage has lead to increasingly suboptimal design, we don't have the benefits of having to work within restrictions to make games, applications, etc in as optimized, condensed form.

[@gbodybala9295]

Never thought about it like that. Do you think that's why games are so unoptimized when first released, and even if they stay unoptimized later in the game's lifespan?

[@anxia-tea5846]

it’s really crazy how much of human psychology can be compared to AI behaviors

[@trashyturtle1666]

Or how it’s behavior might exist because of its creator

[@thermonuclearwarhead]

The accidental traumatic depositing of Pokémon in the center is rather hilarious, and the Magikarp/fast food analogy is beautiful. Picking left is an ancient gaming trick, not surprised AI picked it up/that we make games that reward it. And lastly the short-term memory bit seems to me a great idea to solve this (and also, accidentally, rather human :P).

[@counterleo]

I was feeling sad for the AI who must have thought it accidentally killed its Pokémon 🥲😂

[@lesbo37]

The only flaw in the fast food analogy is we'd need to learn that in the future eating fast food will make you live longer (or something else awesome) given what Magikarp evolves into!

[@teenslayer]

i thought the traumatic experience was super interesting too and funny lol

[@jay.c2097]

Can’t believe this is your first video. This was so entertaining to watch and the editing leaves me wondering how much time it took you. Hope you put out more videos like this and I’d love to see a full AI playthrough at some point!

[@Deusregere]

I was kinda disappointed that it didn’t conclude with the AI defeating the Elite 4 😢

[@derekhettinger451]

The best YT video I've seen in awhile Liked and Subbed The visualizations tell the tale What I can't wrap my mind around is how you implemented those rewards

[@bronzebond4869]

I’ve got no idea who you are but i can say how proud i am that someone tried this and had the patience to gather such interesting, noteworthy and valuable insights. Great work fam. Awesome explanations as well

[@htspencer9084]

Anyone newer to Machine Learning: this video is such a great introduction to concepts such as: * Reward Functions * Misalignment * Emergent Behaviour And more!

[@3ountyhunter]

Is this really your first video?! This is incredibly well done. So glad YT has recognized that your content is deserving of being pushed algorithmically.

[@aaronsmith4113]

incredible video editing and above all research. well done :D

[@Selxis]

As a physician working in the field of pathology one of my main tasks is digital microscopy, aka working with medical imaging. AI and machine learning is a huge emerging discipline in our field. This video was very informative as well as entertaining. Thank you. You definitely earned a like and sub from me. Also, as a side note, I couldn't help but associate some of your observations in machine learning with human evolution as a concept. Definitely interesting stuff.

[@lolmanor]

Excellent video! I always love the videos where the AI attempts are overlapped. Makes me feel like I'm staring at a bunch of newborn ants explore the world. Also the Pokemon center "trauma" moment was so cute! Poor AI!!! You didn't do anything wrong!!