jtogel's Journal: Mario AI Competition

We're running a competition to see who can program the best AI for a version of Super Mario Bros. It's about each time step deciding what to do - run, jump, shoot etc. - based on a description of the platforms, items and enemies around Mario.

This is hard. So hard we believe that some sort of machine learning algorithm will be necessary to reach good playing performance. But really, any approach is game. We welcome hard-coded submissions, and we welcome commercial AI programmers, academics and amateurs alike. Whoever wins (maybe you?) this will be really interesting.

The competition is associated with two IEEE conferences and there are cash prizes available for the best submissions.