MarI/O is a program made of neural networks and genetic algorithms that kicks butt at Super Mario World.
Source Code: http://pastebin.com/ZZmSNaHX
"NEAT" Paper: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downlo....ads/papers/stanley.e
Some relevant Wikipedia links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Evolutionary_algorit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Artificial_neural_ne
BizHawk Emulator: http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk.html

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