MIT Grooms Tomorrow's AI Developers by Making Them Battle Each Other - Motherboard

The final tournament was an hour away and defeat seemed imminent for Cory Li. His team's AI was one of the best in the 2012 Battlecode competition but it was too often outplayed by an algorithm created by an opponent named Tom Morgan. Luckily, Li's team saw a weakness in their nemesis. "His AI was vulnerable to a really aggressive attack," he told me. To win, Li would have to hack MIT's longest running coding competition, retrieve enemy intel, and listen in on their communications.