Navigating a plane 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 was given specific orders not to shoot enemies. His job is to navigate the plane from the beginning of level1 to the ending of level1. He must dodge primarily 3 things: 1. enemies. 2. environment objects. 3. gunfire. During the gameplay, I freeze the frames to show viewers how the robot makes decisions. The robot makes decisions every 2 seconds. Previously committed decisions can stay the same, replaced, or modified. Sometimes, the robot makes random decisions based on 2 or 3 possible actions.

Normally, an action game like gradius requires both navigation and shooting. For the purpose of simplicity, I decided not to include shooting as an action in the game. I wanted viewers to see how the robot makes decisions in terms of navigating a plane safely from the current location to a destination location.