This GTA V AI Learning To Drive Is Absolute Chaos And We Can’t Stop Watching
Twitch channel sentdex has been live streaming Charles in action, crashing into whatever it can in GTA V in a bid to learn how to drive.
Some of the streams have lasted over 24 hours, in part due to Charles now being able to be respawned when he drives into lakes or rivers, or gets stuck in someone’s back garden.
Sentdex also posts footage of the AI self-driving on YouTube - there’s a whole series about it. The whole thing makes for hilarious viewing, especially with Michael (who’s sat in the car) making snarky comments about other people’s driving.
Charles “takes all actions based on single frames at a time, and bases his decisions on just pixel data. Charles only sees exactly what you see”.
The aim in the future is to give Charles some short-term memory, which may result in some less-crashy driving. For now, though, it definitely makes for amusing viewing – the tens of thousands watching on Twitch and YouTube clearly agree with us, too.
Comments
Next step: let Charles drive the Rocket Voltic
I don’t care if it is doing poorly now, but the fact that an AI can be developed to crash into things and learn (hopefully) from crashing and make decisions on frame to frame data…in GTA…is amazing
Still drives better than 99% of online players…
This isn’t the right place to say this, but can anybody help me with my GTA V? It gives me the error ‘’GTA V has exited unexpectedly’’ every time and I’ve destroyed all my nerves with this thing.
Maybe somebody has had the same problem and can help me? I have it on Steam!