AI Trained on 80,000 Hours of Human Gameplay Reaches Top 1% in Smash Melee

Developer Eric Gu trained HAL, a 247M-parameter causal Transformer, on 80,000 hours of human replays to reach the top 1% of Super Smash Bros. Melee players, predicting rather than frame-by-frame imitating human behavior.

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