[HN Gopher] MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning
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       MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning
        
       Author : ArtWomb
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2021-05-07 12:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | On the one hand, this feels like it's "cheating" because it's
       | using an approach which is basically the reverse of the process
       | by which the game's visual output is generated, but on the other
       | hand, the approach of separating foreground entities from the
       | background and predicting movement is very similar to how
       | biological vision systems work.
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       | It's possible to be generally intelligent without having any
       | visual sense, so this approach may not help to develop General
       | AI, but it could still be useful for many machine learning tasks.
        
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