This isn't exactly a case where a machine beats a game, but if you want to get an idea of how such a machine would need to think, and if you want to see someone

This isn't exactly a case where a machine beats a game, but if you want to get an idea of how such a machine would need to think, and if you want to see someone apply a lot of interesting algorithms to brew a sequence of steps to speedrun a game with much more complexity than Pokemon, check out Artjoms Iškovs's series where he comes up with a speedy approach to become the head of all factions in Morrowind: https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-1-41079/ https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-p... Absolutely awesome.