AI Watches 80,000 Hours of Human Replays, Reaches Top 1% in Super Smash Bros. Melee
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-23
Developer Eric Gu trained an AI agent called HAL on 80,000 hours of human match replays, reaching the global top 1% in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Instead of imitating individual actions frame by frame, HAL predicts opponents' next few moves in real time, demonstrating strategic reasoning at the level of fighting-game mind games.
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