Machine Learning AI Demolishes World's Top Super Smash Bros. Players

Watch out world, machines are beating flesh and blood opponents in a variety of different contests. There was Watson, a smarty pants question answering system developed by IBM that took on and defeated the world's best Jeopardy opponents. Then Google's DeepMind division built an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that became the world's top Go player. And now there's an AI that seemingly has no equal in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. game. The AI team was led by Vlad Firoiu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).