AI hand-writes a Breakout network scoring 517; RL after 500M steps managed 25
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-04
A core capability from the MIT demo: given Breakout's rules and source code plus an all-zero network, Astra wrote the weights by hand in one shot. That network scored 517, versus 25 for a network trained by reinforcement learning for 500 million steps.
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