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This AI-Driven Trackmania Bot Can't Be Beat

   YouTuber Yosh spent three years coding a bot to teach it how to be
   unbeatable.

   By Kristin V. Shaw

   Published Dec 16, 2023 11:00 AM EST
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   In the early 1980s movie WarGames, a kid from the Pacific Northwest
   hacks into the US defense system and activates what he thinks is a
   harmless game of Global Thermonuclear War. Unwittingly, he launches
   what could become World War III if he can't figure out how to disarm
   the supercomputer tasked with controlling nuclear missiles. Ultimately,
   the young hacker has to force the machine into learning through a
   continuous loop of Tic-Tac-Toe to understand the ultimate outcome:
   futility.

   Decades later, a YouTuber with the channel name Yosh has tackled the
   lighter side of machine learning: he used artificial intelligence to
   train a bot to play Trackmania with reinforcement learning until he
   couldn't beat it.
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   Yosh started by teaching the bot by having it shadow his personal best.
   However, it tended to smash into walls for short-term reward,
   collecting points. Later in the game, it would learn that the long-term
   results were less than satisfying. Over and over, Yosh tweaked the
   algorithm with custom coding, using trial and error to figure out how
   to improve the results.

   After making many small adjustments in his code, the bot stopped
   hitting the walls and closed the gap between its starting point and
   Yosh's personal best.

   "In practice, it's been a real nightmare to get this thing working
   properly," he says in the video. "This was a painful process."

   Finally, after three years, the AI-trained bot became unbeatable.

   "I have to admit: after playing this game for so many years, it was a
   strange feeling to be outmatched like that by a computer program!" Yosh
   comments.

   That spurred the YouTuber to challenge the bot even further; the
   original track was a simple series of S curves. Setting up a complex
   maze, Yosh tested the AI bot by programming it to spawn anywhere on the
   map so that it wouldn't focus too much on the first few turns. After 35
   hours of training, the machine could beat Yosh.

   But wait. He wasn't finished yet. He played with the road surface,
   added obstacles, and tinkered with the car's physics. Then he taught it
   to drift by offering rewards in the form of additional points.

   Nine-million-plus views later, this video is a fascinating 20 minutes
   of driver training. The bot learns how to take the shortest straight
   lines and find the quickest route, which is something any track fan can
   practice.

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   Kristin Shaw is the former Weekend Editor for The Drive and a current
   freelancer in both the automotive and aviation worlds. She's a big fan
   of anything car-related and calls on her technology background on the
   corporate side to explain engineering and high-tech concepts.
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