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One gaming graphics card trained an AI to play Pokémon Red

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A developer called stmonty trained a 12.5-million-parameter AI on one RTX 3080 Ti gaming card to play Pokémon Red, Tom's Hardware reported. It was never told how to win: it worked out what each button does from 42,382 screen frames by predicting what happens next. Its one test so far is picking a starter in Professor Oak's lab.

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