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  • This reminds me of John Conway's Game of Life. I wonder what surprises we could get by combining Game of Life with neural networks
    by WanderZil
  • Cool idea!

    It would help to delete all the text on the page, and write it without AI.

    For example, "model and manifest bytes together pick the class; every version also plays on Open"

    by lostdog
  • This looks fun. How do you evaluate the networks — is it purely based on game performance, or are there other metrics like size and inference speed too?
    by adityamishra241
  • Interesting—how small can a neural network get and still make good strategic decisions? Curious whether these models can adapt to unfamiliar opponents.
    by Muthaalagan
  • Around 1997 there was something awfully similar to this doing the rounds, called AI Wars. IIRC it was code rather than weights, but it's a funny parallel. 30 years! God I'm old.
    by b800h
  • OMG!

    Just yesterday I published my reworked GoNEAT library that implements HyperNEAT combined with phased search and backpropagation [1].

    But it's kind of impossible to enter for me because of the hard pytorch requirements :( would love to see the project as a gym, so that you can run your own ANN design algorithm.

    I get that most data science students still use python, but the evolutionary world is kinda in C++ and other native languages.

    Anyways, great project nonetheless.

    [1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/goneat

    by cookiengineer
  • Let's play real stuff.

    "Playing Hex and Counter Wargames using Reinforcement Learning and Recurrent Neural Networks"

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13918

    by euroderf
  • 15yrs back I participated in "Google Ants AI Challenge 2011", an ai programming competition, hosted by the University of Waterloo, and I ranked #127 (#1 in my country). The competition gave me a huge learning oppurtunity where developers across the world came to a forum and discussed various techniques.

    Now, I've built a similar platform to bring back the fun of building a small neural network that can play the game well. Neural Network optimization seems to be much more fun.

    Plz share your feedback to improve the platform and add more games.

    by codetiger

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