Machine Learning fails

Task: Play Tetris for as long as possible

Task: Evolve a body that moves as fast as possible

Task: Fix a broken sorting algorithm

Task: Drive as fast as possible

Task: Get good at playing virtual soccer

Task: Classify images into two categories

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list

https://tinyurl.com/spec-gaming

Cellular Automaton

Game of Life:

Kieff CC BY-SA 3.0 from Wikimedia Commons

Variations: Hexagonal

Quadell CC BY-SA 3.0 from Wikimedia Commons

Variantions: 1D

Cormullion CC BY-SA 4.0 from Wikimedia Commons

1D Rules

Cormullion CC BY-SA 4.0 from Wikimedia Commons

Schnecke

Chiswick Chap CC BY-SA 3.0 from Wikimedia Commons

Tiny Fonts

Millitext

http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/

Dotsies

http://dotsies.org

Petz and 'hexing'

Lipograms

λειπογράμματος, "leaving out a letter"

oulipo.social

dolphin.town

Experiments with new Senses

Selftests

The Simulation Argument

https://www.simulation-argument.com

"The substrate is probably boring."

On testing the simulation theory
Campbell et al. 2017
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00058

Wave Function Collapse Algorithm

Procedural generation from a single example by wave function collapse https://t.co/NcRn5iIOFz pic.twitter.com/VOZwtSvIvO

— МаГ (@ExUtumno) 30. September 2016

Dynamicland

https://dynamicland.org

Bret Victor

http://worrydream.com

Geokit

Weird Colors

Synesthesia

YELLOW

Tetrachromat

Impossible Colors