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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place love genetic algorithms and beam searches and the like. one of my first ludum dare games was a genetic algorithm where the fitness of a specimen was taken as its average distance and minimum to the player over its lifetime and its genes were a stream of inputs, and they'd gradually learn how to get close to wherever the player was building. was exhilarating to see them learn in real time. fwiw i am extremely anti "AI" - the current trends are a huge shame though because theres a lot of very interesting weird cool not-awful ML/NN stuff to explore, but LLMs have pooped in that particular pool.