AI Robot CyberRunner Masters Labyrinth Game in 5 Hours, Beats Human Record
• Researchers created CyberRunner, an AI robot that can beat humans at the classic maze game Labyrinth • CyberRunner mastered the game in just 5 hours and can now complete the maze in 14.5 seconds, faster than the human record • It uses real-time reinforcement learning and overhead camera input to learn the best pathways through trial-and-error • As it plays more, CyberRunner continuously improves by uncovering shortcuts and exploitations • The researchers made CyberRunner open-source so that AI researchers worldwide can build upon and improve it