{"id":16960,"date":"2026-07-30T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:04:27","slug":"teach-ai-to-play-super-mario-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16960","title":{"rendered":"Teach AI to play Super Mario World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alexeisenhart.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alexeisenhart.com\/\">Alex Eisenhart<\/a>, inspired by Seth Bling who <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/d12frosted\/7471e2123f10485d96bb\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/d12frosted\/7471e2123f10485d96bb\">released MarI\/O in 2015<\/a>, he has started web series that shows how to <a href=\"https:\/\/alexeisenhart.com\/writing\/super-mario-world-ai-01-basic-hud\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alexeisenhart.com\/writing\/super-mario-world-ai-01-basic-hud\/\">make your own AI powered Mario game player<\/a>. 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