AI finds novel way to beat classic Q*bert Atari video game

Atari video game Q*bert has been beaten by an Artificial Intelligence program, which exploited a loophole that had never previously been discovered. The AI program used trial and error to uncover a quirk in the game's code that let it score a huge amount of points. No human player of Q*bert is believed to have ever uncovered the tricks it used to win. The AI program was let loose on the video game by German researchers who are developing code that can learn. Video games have proved popular with AI researchers because they are limited worlds in which success (high scores) and failure (losing the game) are easy to assess.