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It's so easy, even a computer can do it [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/2tluxv/yaap_fullauto_bot_ascension_bothack https://www.reddit.com/r/n

• schoen 11y ago
  Since I'm not a Go player but am a NetHack player, I got more personal appreciation out of BotHack's achievement from last year than from AlphaGo's victory. That was also something that I hadn't expected to see for years to come; you can see from the bot comparison page https://taeb.github.io/bots.html https://taeb.github.io/bots.html that no other bot had really come anywhere close to ascending before BotHack pulled it off. It's interesting to see that the winning approach was GOFAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen... -- that is, the author taught the bot human-level rules and concepts based on human knowledge about the game. It wasn't a deep learning or neural net system; there is specific code about what altars do, how to fight mind flayers, or whatever. For instance, here's a hard-coded list of corpses to avoid eating. https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack/blob/master/src/bothack/player.clj#L359 https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack/blob/master/src/bothack/pl...
• PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  I was wondering if such a thing existed. I remember the original Rog-O-Matic rogue playing bot which goes back to 1981. It was really fun to watch it play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic