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I watched the youtube videos of all the battles so far and I was really surprised to see that a very simple strategy (in retrospect) was sufficient to win the c

• msciabarra 5y ago
  Actually the discussion of using an AI trained robot has been frequently discussed on the various forums. Nimbella has even an "python ai" runtime that would support it. However does not seem the winning robots actually uses any A.I.
• tout 5y ago
  That's very much something that happens in Battlesnake[1]! There's a fun Go Time episode about it all[2]. [1]: https://play.battlesnake.com/ https://play.battlesnake.com/ [2]: https://changelog.com/gotime/182 https://changelog.com/gotime/182
• judohacker 5y ago
  Years ago, I played around with Robocode and genetic programming to "evolve" battle strategies. I was always surprised by how simple the generated winning strategies were. They were always counter intuitive.
• ska 5y ago
  In most of these sorts of competition environments, it's a lot less work (and cheaper) to make a competitive hand-tuned algorithm that a really competitive AI version. If you are already working on a similar training environment with a bunch of free/cheap compute jumping in for a weekend or whatever could give decent results, but otherwise you're likely going to get destroyed by bespoke tactics.