DESTROYING Donkey Kong with AI (Deep Reinforcement Learning)

That whole "Ground? No." bit was painfully accurate to the game dev experience.

As a wise man once said: “if your code works perfectly first try, it didn’t, you just haven’t noticed what’s broken yet”

Now make a Donkey Kong AI that learns the best barrel throwing strategies and pit them against each other for eternity

Code Bullet really is the best inspiration. He doesn't hide or gloss over his mistakes and in so doing shows that coding really is a perpetual state of learning through trial and error. And then promptly forgetting everything while we binge our next dopamine fix instead of working. Seriously though, I really appreciate that you include the struggle of being human in your videos. It makes them so much more relatable.

There is nothing more terrifying than when code works the first time immediately. How can we know it really works if we don't spend hours fixing the bugs?

I love how the second AI effectively decides to become a challenge runner by removing the part of it's brain responsible for jumping, just because it could-

Neat detail I noticed that wasn't brought up. At 2:46 you can see the player square falls all the platform a bit early, when it's only halfway off, which causes it to clip into the floor a bit. This is because the "laser" vector that detects if the floor is there is positioned in the middle of the square, and therefore doesn't detect the ground when the square is only halfway off. This is silently fixed at 2:58, where the square now only falls when it's fully off the platform. As you can see, the lasers are on either side of the square, making sure both have to be off the platform before it falls.

The jokes and screwing around in the first 4 minutes got you a new sub. The "breath of fresh air" bonus is how you're not afraid to swear and genuinely enjoy what you do even when your code doesn't work.

Code Bullet is kind of like an A.I himself. In his videos he get slightly more competent over time

as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer, I can confirm we tickle the balls of the reinforcement learning agents as a reward function. Its one of the best ones out there.

I like how nobody really forgets about the Enigma machine even after 5 years

13:38 Code Bullet is so good at coding, the AI felt necessary to learn speedrunning!

Every code bullet video is an event that should be treated with utmost respect.

Code bullet is probably the inner voice every programmer has while working on projects.

The Jon Bailey cameo is the crossover I didn't know I needed.

I really love when you go into the more technical side of things, and still blending in the comedy. Great video!

I absolutely love how accurate you show the process of coding, just fail after fail until somehow it works and you’re not really completely sure why but hey it works so it’s all good

When you mentioned the jumping, or absolute lack of them doing it in NEAT, I instantly had a vision of you adding points for jumping over barrels and the AI dudes going balls first sailing back and forth over the barrels instead of going to the end. Just racking up massive points for themselves over and over again.

I especially like how the barrels rotate the opposite way that they are going. Great stuff.

you're amazing dude, honestly your content is so relaxing to watch cause the ammount of work you have to put on, so we can just watch and relaxed like it was nothing, <3 i really hope you have a great life, and conquer all your dreams and plans!