40 Hours of Training Was All an AI Needed to Shatter the World Record in the World's Hardest Video Game

Who says shame can?t be an effective motivator? Less than a week after we shared Wesley Liao?s experiments using machine learning to train an AI to play QWOP, one of the hardest video games of all time, the AI was re-trained with the goal of maximizing its speed, resulting in a new world record.