Playing contra using Universal Artificial Intelligence

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A robot with universal artificial intelligence is a robot that can do any human task. It can drive a car, fly a plane, play any videogame, play any sports game, cook in a restaurant, clean a house, etc.

This video demonstrates how a robot thinks while playing a side-scrolling shooting game. There are no sound in this video because I wanted the viewers to focus on the robot's thoughts while playing the game.

The robot is playing contra for the first time and has no idea what the objectives or rules of the game are. He has a basic understanding of the rules/objectives based on prior knowledge about side-scrolling shooting games. During the game, the robot has to find strategies to defeat enemies. In order to do this, the robot has to analyze enemies, determine what hurts them, and creatively coming up with strategies to defeat enemies. If the robot dies in the game, he will re-evaluate the reason he died, and formulate a new strategy the next time this event happens.

Thus, the robot is adapting to the game as he is playing it and the goal is to beat the game with minimal trial and error. As you can see in the video, there are two bosses the player (the robot) has to defeat. The robot's conscious is generating facts about the boss and formulating strategies to counter every single boss action. Next, the robot's conscious is also trying to multi-task by stringing strategies together.