AI Learns to Play Wii Sports

This ai got more out of the parks in 2 hrs than I did in my entire childhood

OK, so what did we learn? Always pitch right splitters. ALWAYS

No way the A.I. just humbled Sakura by mercy ruling her. Also guest C was so perfect. His cold stoic stare perfectly personified A.I.

Put it against itself!

What’s crazy here is that this AI mercy ruled the best in the game, but any real player could easily beat it by allowing it to walk in runs

Now train a baseball AI to imitate Poofesure gameplay and skill level.

During AI’s impressive run to the top of the leaderboards to take on the champ, it won 11 games, hitting an astonishing .528/.528/.1.314 (good for a 1.842 OPS) while recording a 2.16 ERA, a shocking 16.92 K/9, and a vanishingly low 0.72 BB/9. Ohtani who?

Now play against the AI.

somehow three-true-outcome analytical baseball has made its way to wii sports, and i love it

14:12 bro really threw an immaculate inning

When we used to play this officially it was always a challenge of who could hit the most out of the parks not the most scores.

You can see a small difference between a fast ball and a splitter. Because they have different heights

I was secretly hoping you could make an AI that learns as it pitches/bats. Like, you give it the starting 1000 data points... then the AI goes from there, improving and learning with each new pitch, ready to go up all the way to max score. Its funny. Wii sports has an oddly convenient way to track improvement

id be really curious to see a neural net learn how to pitch in a more complex baseball simulator with better ai. if an opponent can just always sit on 4 splitters you have to get much more interesting strats

I remember discovering the right splitter strat back when i was a kid trying to get pro in all the sports. It's insane how consistently it just wrecked every cpu. I nearly maxed the skill level out for my mii.

That first game the AI played was a single home run short of what’s known as “hitting for the cycle.” Which is getting a single, double, triple and home run in one game. They’re pretty darn rare irl, particularly the triple, but the AI got two triples in that game - which is also exceptionally rare. Granted, they were from errors on the defense, but a triple is a triple no matter how you get it. Not only that, but it also went and pitched an “immaculate inning.” Which is 3 strikeouts on 9 pitches, or put another way: every single pitch for that inning was a strike. Those are one of the holy grails of pitching accomplishments. They’re rarer than no hitters and only perfect games are rarer. (Thanks to @mustangex3785 for the correction) What I’m trying to say is: the AI was one home run away from having the greatest rookie performance of all time. 😂

18:20 you’re welcome captions, you’re welcome

This AI is unreal good! Plus it nearly misses just often enough that I’d believe this was a real human who was a pro at Wii sports baseball like for real this AI impresses me!

The AI doing what Poofesure dreams about

just gotta say man, amazing video, music during the montage absolutely slapped too! great video all in all